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Title

  • Science of Societal Safety : Living at Times of Risks and Disasters

Summary

  • This open access book covers comprehensive but fundamental principles and concepts of disaster and accident prevention and mitigation, countermeasures, and recovery from disasters or accidents including treatment and care of the victims. Safety and security problems in our society involve not only engineering but also social, legal, economic, cultural, and psychological issues. The enhancement needed for societal safety includes comprehensive activities of all aspects from precaution to recovery, not only of people but also of governments. In this context, the authors, members of the Faculty of Societal Safety Science, Kansai University, conducted many discussions and concluded that the major strategy is consistent independently of the type and magnitude of disaster or accident, being also the principle of the foundation of our faculty. The topics treated in this book are rather widely distributed but are well organized sequentially to provide a clear understanding of the principles of societal safety. In the first part the fundamental concepts of safety are discussed. The second part deals with risks in the societal and natural environment. Then follows, in the third part, a description of the quantitative estimation of risk and its assessment and management. The fourth part is devoted to disaster prevention, mitigation, and recovery systems. The final, fifth part presents a future perspective of societal safety science. Thorough reading of this introductory volume of societal safety science provides a clear image of the issues. This is largely because the Japanese have suffered often from natural disasters and not only have gained much valuable information about disasters but also have accumulated a store of experience. We are still in the process of reconstruction from the Great East Japan earthquake and the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident. This book is especially valuable therefore in studying the safety and security of people and their societies.

Names

  • Abe, Seiji, editor.
  • Kawata, Yoshiaki, editor.
  • Ozawa, Mamoru, editor.

Created / Published

  • Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.

Contents

  • Part I Human Societies and Societal Safety Sciences -- Chapter 1 What are Societal Safety Sciences -- Chapter 2 Advancement of Scientific Technologies and Human Societies -- Chapter 3 Contemporary Societies and Risk -- Chapter 4 Modern Societies and Establishment of Academia -- Part II Events that Threaten Human and its Societies -- Chapter 5 Human, Nature, and Artificial Products -- Chapter 6 Natural Disasters, Safety, and Security -- Chapter 7 Angles of Social Disasters and Damages -- Chapter 8 Environmental Risks -- Chapter 9 Wars, Crimes, and Terrorism -- Part III Basic Statistics of Risk Analysis -- Chapter 10 Methods in Risk Analysis -- Chapter 11 Risk Management -- Chapter 12 Risk Communication and Disaster Information -- Chapter 13 Crisis Management -- IV Social Mechanisms of Disaster Prevention, Mitigation, and Minimization -- Chapter 14 Public Systems for Disaster Prevention, Mitigation, and Minimization -- Chapter 15 Government Activities in Disaster Prevention and Mitigation -- Chapter 16 Civil Systems for Disaster Prevention, Mitigation, and Minimization -- Chapter 17 Supporting disaster victims -- Part V For Advancement of Societal Safety Sciences -- Chapter 18 Governance and Forming Agreement for Societal Safety Sciences -- Chapter 19 For Deepening Societal Safety Sciences.

Headings

  • -  Environmental policy
  • -  Fire prevention
  • -  Industrial safety
  • -  Quality control
  • -  Reliability
  • -  Sociology, Urban
  • -  Terrorism
  • -  Urban Studies/Sociology
  • -  Environmental Policy
  • -  Fire Science, Hazard Control, Building Safety
  • -  Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk

Notes

  • -  Description based on publisher-supplied MARC data.
  • -  Social Sciences (R0) (SpringerNature-43726)
  • -  Social Sciences (SpringerNature-41176)

Medium

  • 1 online resource (XV, 227 pages 18 illustrations)

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2019768319

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  • Unrestricted online access
  • Open Access

Online Format

  • image
  • epub

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Chicago citation style:

Abe, Seijiitor, Yoshiakiitor Kawata, and Mamoruitor Ozawa, editor. Science of Societal Safety: Living at Times of Risks and Disasters. Singapore: Springer Singapore: Imprint: Springer, 2019. Image. https://www.loc.gov/item/2019768319/.

APA citation style:

Abe, S., Kawata, Y. & Ozawa, M., editor. (2019) Science of Societal Safety: Living at Times of Risks and Disasters. Singapore: Springer Singapore: Imprint: Springer. [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2019768319/.

MLA citation style:

Abe, Seijiitor, Yoshiakiitor Kawata, and Mamoruitor Ozawa, editor. Science of Societal Safety: Living at Times of Risks and Disasters. Singapore: Springer Singapore: Imprint: Springer, 2019. Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2019768319/>.