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City Evacuations: An Interdisciplinary Approach (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2015)
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City Evacuations: An Interdisciplinary Approach (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2015)
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Evacuating a city is a complex problem that involves issues of
governance, preparedness education, warning, information sharing,
population dynamics, resilience and recovery. As natural and
anthropogenic threats to cities grow, it is an increasingly
pressing problem for policy makers and practitioners. The book is
the result of a unique interdisciplinary collaboration between
researchers in the physical and social sciences to consider how an
interdisciplinary approach can help plan for large scale
evacuations. It draws on perspectives from physics, mathematics,
organisation theory, economics, sociology and education.
Importantly it goes beyond disciplinary boundaries and considers
how interdisciplinary methods are necessary to approach a complex
problem involving human actors and increasingly complex
communications and transportation infrastructures. Using real world
case studies and modelling the book considers new approaches to
evacuation dynamics. It addresses questions of complexity, not only
in terms of theory, but examining the latest challenges for cities
and emergency responders. Factors such as social media, information
quality and visualisation techniques are examined to consider the
'new' dynamics of warning and informing, evacuation and recovery.
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