Preston, J and Binner, J and Branicki, L and Galla, T and Jones, N and King, J and Kolokitha, M and Smyrnakis, M (2015) City evacuations: an interdisciplinary approach. Springer, Heidelberg, v-. Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43877-0
Preston, J and Binner, J and Branicki, L and Galla, T and Jones, N and King, J and Kolokitha, M and Smyrnakis, M (2015) City evacuations: an interdisciplinary approach. Springer, Heidelberg, v-. Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43877-0
Preston, J and Binner, J and Branicki, L and Galla, T and Jones, N and King, J and Kolokitha, M and Smyrnakis, M (2015) City evacuations: an interdisciplinary approach. Springer, Heidelberg, v-. Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43877-0
Abstract
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.
Item Type: | Book |
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology, Department of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 11 Jan 2018 12:31 |
Last Modified: | 23 Sep 2022 19:21 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/21079 |