Overview
Disaster Resilient Cities: Concepts and Practical Examples discusses natural disasters, their complexity, and the exploration of different ways of thinking regarding the resilience of structures. The book provides a blueprint for structural designers to better prepare structures for all types of natural hazards during the design stage. Brief and readable, this book analyzes various examples of disaster damage from earthquakes, tsunamis, and floods, together with their causal mechanisms. Practical methods to plan and design structures based on their regions, cities, as well as the particular countermeasures are also included for study.
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Author: Yoshitsugu Hayashi (Distinguished Professor and Director, Center for Sustainable Development and Global Smart City, Chubu University, Kasugai, Aichi, Japan) ,
Yasuhiro Suzuki (Disaster Mitigation Research Center, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan) ,
Shinji Sato (Department of Civil Engineering, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan) ,
Kenichi Tsukahara (Disaster Risk Reduction Research Center, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan)
Publisher: Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.20cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.320kg
ISBN: 9780128098622
ISBN 10: 0128098627
Pages: 206
Publication Date: 17 March 2016
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Author Information
Yoshitsugu Hayashi is Distinguished Professor & Director of the Center for Sustainable Development and Global Smart City at Chubu University, Japan, and Distinguished Guest Professor, Tsinghua University, China. He is Executive Committee member of the Club of Rome and Ex-President (2013-19) and Chair of COVID-19 Task Force of WCTRS (World Conference on Transport Research Society). He is the author of more than 230 peer-reviewed papers and 40 books, including Elsevier’s book Disaster Resilient Cities. His research areas include urbanization and motorization, urban smart growth/shrink management, rail transit systems, QOL based project evaluation method replacing cost-economic benefit analysis, and smart transport and cities. He was also a board member of the Engineering Academy of Japan, co-editor of Elsevier’s journal Transport Policy and Associate Editor of Elsevier’s Transportation Research Part D journal. Professor, Disaster Mitigation Research Center, Nagoya University Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, the University of Tokyo Professor, Disaster Risk Reduction Research Center, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University
