Urban Resilience - A Transformative Approach (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)

This book is on urban resilience - how to design and operate cities that can withstand major threats such as natural disasters and economic downturns and how to recover from them. It is a collection of latest research results from two separate but collaborating research groups, namely, researchers in urban design and those on general resilience theory. The book systematically deals with the core aspects of urban resilience: systems, management issues and populations. The taxonomy can be broken down into threats, systems, resilience cycles and recovery types in the context of urban resilience. It starts with a discussion of systems resilience models, focusing on the central idea that resilience is a moving average of costs (a set of trajectories in a two-player game paradigm). The second section explores management issues, including planning, operating and emergency response in cities with specific examples such as land-use planning and carbon-neutral scenarios for urban planning. The next section focuses on urban dwellers and specific people-related issues in the context of resilience. Agent-based simulation of behaviour and perception-based resilience, as well as brand crisis management are representative examples of the topics discussed. A further section examines systems like public utilities - including managing power supplies, cyber-security issues and models for pandemics. It concludes with a discussion of the future challenges and risks facing complex systems, for example in resilient power grids, making it essential reading for a wide range of researchers and policymakers.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications
Release date:	August 2016
First published:	2016
Editors:	Yoshiki Yamagata • Hiroshi Maruyama
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	319
Edition:	1st ed. 2016
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-39810-5
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Environmental impact of natural disasters & phenomena Books > Computing & IT > Applications of computing > Computer modelling & simulation Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Applied mathematics > General Books > Professional & Technical > Civil engineering, surveying & building > Building construction & materials > Security & fire alarm systems Books > Computing & IT > Computer software packages > Computer graphics software > General Promotions
LSN:	3-319-39810-5
Barcode:	9783319398105

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