Disaster Forensics Understanding Root Cause and Complex Causality

This book aims to uncover the root causes of natural and man-made disasters by going beyond the typical reports and case studies conducted post-disaster. It opens the black box of disasters by presenting ‘forensic analysis approaches’ to disasters, thereby revealing the complex causality that charac...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Masys, Anthony J. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2016, 2016
Edition:1st ed. 2016
Series:Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Individual and Societal Risk (RiskIS): Beyond probability and consequence during Hurricane Katrina
  • Application of problem inversion to cascading critical infrastructure failure
  • Heroes and Villains in Complex Socio-Technical Systems
  • Patient Safety and Disaster Forensics: understanding complex causality through Actor Network ethnography
  • The Fog of Battle in risk and crisis communication: Towards the goal of interoperability in the digital age
  • Disaster Forensics: Governance, Adaptivity and Social Innovation
  • Disasters and Mishaps: The Merits of Taking a Global View.-Dynamics of information flow before major crises: Lessons from the collapse of Enron, the subprime mortgage crisis and other high impact disasters in the industrial sector
  • Climate Change and Disaster Forensics
  • The Complex Dynamic Causality of Violent Extremism: Applications of the VERA-2 Risk Assessment Method to CVE initiatives
  • Staying alive in the business of terror
  • Counter-terrorism and Design Thinking: Supporting strategic insights and influencing operations
  • Economic Disruptions, Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Forensic Analysis: The Hawaii Business Recovery Center (HIBRC) Project
  • An Event-Driven, Scalable and Real-Time Geo-spatial Disaster Forensics Architecture: Decision Support for Integrated Disaster Risk Reduction describes
  • Advances in Economics and Disaster Forensics: A Multi-Criteria Disaster Forensics Analysis (MCDFA) of the 2012 Kahuku Wind Farm Battery Fire on Oahu, Hawaii.-Complexity and Disaster Forensics: Paradigms, Models and Approaches for Natural Hazards Management in the Pacific Island Region.