This Open Access Book is the first to examine disasters from a multidisciplinary perspective. Justification of actions in the face of disasters requires recourse both to conceptual analysis and ethical traditions. Part 1 of the book contains chapters on how disasters are conceptualized in different academic disciplines relevant to disasters. Part 2 has chapters on how ethical issues that arise …
Indonesia merupakan wilayah yang rawan bencana. Hal tersebut dilatarbelakangi suatu realitas bahwa Indonesia dikelilingi tiga lempeng tektonik aktif, deretan gunungapi aktif bagian dari ring of fire dan letak geografis yang dilewati garis khatulistiwa. Dalam kerangka membangun kesiapsiagaan, pengetahuan menjadi bahan dalam mengetahui dan memahami konteks penanggulangan bencana. Salah satuny…
This book covers seismic probabilistic risk assessment (S-PRA) and related studies which have become more important to increase the safety of nuclear facilities against earthquakes and tsunamis in the face of the many uncertainties after the Fukushima accident. The topics are (1) Active faults and active tectonics important for seismic hazard assessment of nuclear facilities,(2) Seismic source …
This book covers seismic probabilistic risk assessment (S-PRA) and related studies which have become more important to increase the safety of nuclear facilities against earthquakes and tsunamis in the face of the many uncertainties after the Fukushima accident. The topics are (1) Active faults and active tectonics important for seismic hazard assessment of nuclear facilities,(2) Seismic source …
Wilayah Indonesia yang terletak di antara lempeng tektonik aktif mempunyai aktivitas gempa yang sangat tinggi. Arsitektur seismo-tektonik Indonesia sangat beragam dengan berbagai fenomena gempa sehingga cocok untuk dijadikan laboratoriun alam riset gempa dan tsunami. Namun kondisi ini sekaligus menjadi tantangan besar untuk pembangunan yang aman dari bencana alam. Kontras dengan kebutuhan ini, …
This open access book originates from an international workshop organized by Turkish Natural Catastrophe Insurance Pool (TCIP) in November 2019 that gathered renown researchers from academia, representatives of leading international reinsurance and modeling companies as well as government agencies responsible of insurance pricing in Turkey. The book includes chapters related to post-earthquake …
Disasters are characterized by severe disruptions of the society’s functionality and adverse impacts on humans, the environment, and economy that cannot be coped with by society using its own resources. This work presents a decision support method that identifies appropriate measures for protecting the public in the course of a nuclear accident. The method particularly considers the issue of …
Covid-19 has highlighted limitations in our democratic politics – but also lessons for how to deepen our democracy and more effectively respond to future crises. In the face of an emergency, the working assumption all too often is that only a centralised, top-down response is possible. This book exposes the weakness of this assumption, making the case for deeper participation and deliberation…
This excellent text recognises that efforts towards improving development outcomes must work in concert with strategies which promote planetary health and support the transition to a sustainable and climate-resilient future. — Rt Hon Helen Clark, Patron, The Helen Clark Foundation, Auckland, New Zealand. The threat multiplier of climate change is carefully used to examine best practic…