Disaster Management and Human Health Risk: Reducing Risk, Improving Outcomes (Wit Transactions on the Built Environment)

Recently, there has been a disturbing increase in the number of natural disasters affecting millions of people, destroying property and resulting in loss of human life. These events include major flooding, hurricanes, earthquakes and many others.

Today the world faces unparalleled threats from human-made disasters that can be attributed to failure of industrial and energy installation as well as to terrorism. Added to this is the unparalleled threat of emerging and re-emerging diseases, with scientists predicting events such as an influenza pandemic.

Containing papers from the First International Conference on Disaster
Management and Human Health Risk, the book covers: Reducing Risk, Improving Outcomes including topics: Global Risks and Health; Chemical Emergencies; Extreme Weather Events; Food and Water Safety; Natural Disasters; Pandemics
and Biological Threats; Radiation Emergencies; Terrorism; Offshore Disasters; Remote Areas Response; Emergency Preparedness and Planning; Risk Mitigation;
Surveillance and Early Warning Systems; Disaster Resilient Communities; Disaster Epidemiology and Assessment; Disaster Mental Health; Business Continuity; Human Health Economics; Recent Incidents and Outbreaks; Public Health Preparedness.