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  title info:
    title: Geospatial Techniques in Urban Hazard and Disaster Analysis
  name:
    name part: Showalter, Pamela S.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Lu, Yongmei.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVI, 452 p. 151 illus., 61 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book examines how Geographic Information Technologies (GIT) are being implemented to improve our understanding of a variety of hazard and disaster situations. The volume is a compilation of recent research using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Remote Sensing (RS) and other technologies such as Global Positioning Systems (GPS) to examine urban hazard and disaster issues. The goal is to improve and advance the use of such technologies during four classic phases of hazard and disaster research: response, recovery, preparation and mitigation. The focus is on urban areas, broadly defined in order to encompass rapidly growing and densely populated areas. The material presented is multidisciplinary, with contributions from scholars in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and North America, and is presented in five key sections: sea level rise and flood analysis earthquakes and tsunamis and international applications hurricane response/recovery metropolitan case studies evacuation studies This volume contributes to our understanding of extreme events in urban environments with the use of GIT and expanding its role at the local, regional, state and federal levels. The book is a valuable reference for academic researchers and professionals and practitioners working in hazard management and mitigation.
  table of contents: Sea Level Rise and Flood Analysis -- Modeling Sea-Level Rise and Surge in Low-Lying Urban Areas Using Spatial Data, Geographic Information Systems, and Animation Methods -- Urban Expansion and Sea-Level Rise Related Flood Vulnerability for Mumbai (Bombay), India Using Remotely Sensed Data -- A GIS for Flood Risk Management in Flanders -- Using Geographic Information Science to Estimate Vulnerable Urban Populations for Flood Hazard and Risk Assessment in New York City -- Geo-Information Technology for Infrastructural Flood Risk Analysis in Unplanned Settlements: A Case Study of Informal Settlement Flood Risk in the Nyabugogo Flood Plain, Kigali City, Rwanda -- Metropolitan Case Studies -- A Respiratory Riskscape for Texas Cities: A Spatial Analysis of Air Pollution, Demographic Attributes and Deaths from 2000 Through 2004 -- Spatial Distribution of Toxic Release Inventory Sites in Chicago Area: Is There Environmental Inequity? -- Risk and Exposure to Extreme Heat in Microclimates of Phoenix, AZ -- Wildfire Risk Analysis at the Wildland Urban Interface in Travis County, Texas -- Early Warning of Food Security Crises in Urban Areas: The Case of Harare, Zimbabwe, 2007 -- Earthquakes, Tsunamis, and International Applications -- Spatial Information Technologies for Disaster Management in China -- A Cybercartographic Tool for Supporting Disaster Prevention Planning Processes and Emergency Management in Mexico City -- Integration of Tsunami Analysis Tools into a GIS Workspace – Research, Modeling, and Hazard Mitigation efforts Within NOAA’s Center for Tsunami Research -- Utilizing New Technologies in Managing Hazards and Disasters -- Hurricane Response/Recovery -- Remote Sensing and GIS Data/Information in the Emergency Response/Recovery Phase -- Investigating Recovery Patterns in Post Disaster Urban Settings: Utilizing Geospatial Technology to Understand Post-Hurricane Katrina Recovery in New Orleans, Louisiana -- Space and Time Changes in Neighborhood Recovery After a Dis…
  note: edited by Pamela S. Showalter, Yongmei Lu.
  subject:
    topic: Geography
  subject:
    topic: Natural disasters
  subject:
    topic: Geographical information systems
  subject:
    topic: Remote sensing
  subject:
    topic: Regional planning
  subject:
    topic: Urban planning
  subject:
    topic: Urban geography
  subject:
    topic: Environmental management
  subject:
    topic: Geography
  subject:
    topic: Geographical Information Systems/Cartography
  subject:
    topic: Natural Hazards
  subject:
    topic: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns)
  subject:
    topic: Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Management
  subject:
    topic: Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning
  classification: GA1-1776
  classification: 910.285
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Geotechnologies and the Environment ; 2
  identifier: 9789048122387
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2238-7
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    record creation date: 110414
    record change date: 20151204182808.0
    record identifier: 978-90-481-2238-7