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Author : Daniel J. Alesch
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Seismic Safety in California Hospitals written by Daniel J. Alesch and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William J. Petak
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (638 download)
Download or read book Seismic Safety in California Hospitals: Assessing an Attempt to Accelerate the Replacement Or Seismic Retrofit of Older Hospital Facility written by William J. Petak and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : California. Seismic Safety Commission
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Findings and Recommendations on Hospital Seismic Safety written by California. Seismic Safety Commission and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : California. Seismic Safety Commission
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book An Evaluation and Assessment of the California Seismic Safety Commission's Seismic Retrofit Practices Improvement Program written by California. Seismic Safety Commission and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Technical Report written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kathleen Tierney
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509535691
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Disasters written by Kathleen Tierney and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disasters kill, maim, and generate increasingly large economic losses. But they do not wreak their damage equally across populations, and every disaster has social dimensions at its very core. This important book sheds light on the social conditions and on the global, national, and local processes that produce disasters. Topics covered include the social roots of disaster vulnerability, exposure to natural hazards such as hurricanes and tsunamis as a form of environmental injustice, and emerging threats. Written by a leading expert in the field, this book provides the necessary frameworks for understanding hazards and disasters, exploring the contributions of very different social science fields to disaster research and showing how these ideas have evolved over time. Bringing the social aspects of recent devastating disasters to the forefront, Tierney discusses the challenges of conducting research in the aftermath of disasters and critiques the concept of disaster resilience, which has come to be seen as a key to disaster risk reduction. Peppered with case studies, research examples, and insights from very different disciplines, this rich introduction is an invaluable resource to students and scholars interested in the social nature of disasters and their relation to broader social forces.
Author : Kathleen Tierney
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804791406
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book The Social Roots of Risk written by Kathleen Tierney and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-23 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This book about risk and disaster—and how they get amplified—is fascinating and hugely important as we face an ever-more-turbulent world.” —Rebecca Solnit, award-winning author of A Field Guide to Getting Lost The first decade of the twenty-first century saw a remarkable number of large-scale disasters. Earthquakes in Haiti and Sumatra underscored the serious economic consequences that catastrophic events can have on developing countries, while 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina showed that first world nations remain vulnerable. The Social Roots of Risk argues against the widespread notion that cataclysmic occurrences are singular events, driven by forces beyond our control. Instead, Kathleen Tierney contends that disasters of all types—be they natural, technological, or economic—are rooted in common social and institutional sources. Put another way, risks and disasters are produced by the social order itself—by governing bodies, organizations, and groups that push for economic growth, oppose risk-reducing regulation, and escape responsibility for tremendous losses when they occur. Considering a wide range of historical and looming events—from a potential mega-earthquake in Tokyo that would cause devastation far greater than what we saw in 2011, to BP’s accident history prior to the 2010 blowout—Tierney illustrates trends in our behavior, connecting what seem like one-off events to illuminate historical patterns. Like risk, human resilience also emerges from the social order, and this book makes a powerful case that we already have a significant capacity to reduce the losses that disasters produce. A provocative rethinking of the way that we approach and remedy disasters, The Social Roots of Risk leaves readers with a better understanding of how our own actions make us vulnerable to the next big crisis—and what we can do to prevent it. “Brilliant . . . Drawing on a trove of timely case studies, Tierney analyses how factors such as speculative finance and rampant development allow natural and economic blips to tip more easily into catastrophe.” —Nature
Author : Benjamin L. Preston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781977402639
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Updating the Costs of Compliance for California's Hospital Seismic Safety Standards written by Benjamin L. Preston and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1994 Northridge earthquake led to legislation in California-Senate Bill (SB) 1953-which requires upgrades to hospital buildings to enhance resilience to seismic events. Since the passage of SB 1953, hospitals have been implementing structural and nonstructural upgrades to comply with the standards. The potential costs of SB 1953 have raised significant concerns regarding both the financial burden on hospital systems and the opportunity costs associated with hospitals investing large pools of capital in implementing seismic upgrades. This report updates previous RAND estimates of the costs to hospitals of future compliance with SB 1953, with a particular focus on the 2030 deadline. In addition to generating direct estimates of the costs of retrofitting or rebuilding noncompliant buildings, the authors assess the affordability of compliance based on recent hospital financial data. Given the challenges of cost and affordability, the authors also present a range of policy alternatives that could be implemented alone or in combination to ease the compliance challenge while building seismic resilience in California hospitals. Results from quantitative and qualitative analyses indicate that, despite decades of investment in seismic compliance projects, California hospitals still face a financial obligation potentially totaling tens of billions of dollars by 2030. Many hospitals are already experiencing financial stress, and the burden of future compliance is likely to exacerbate this stress. There are options for providing regulatory relief or flexibility to hospitals: public subsidies to share the costs of compliance or reduce financing costs, additional flexibility in compliance deadlines, new standards for what it means for hospitals to remain operational postevent, and streamlined administrative processes. Regardless, addressing long-standing knowledge gaps associated with the benefits and costs of SB 1953 implementation can provide important information to decisionmakers regarding the merits of pursuing future changes in seismic requirements.
Author : Daniel J. Alesch
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400722354
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Natural Hazard Mitigation Policy written by Daniel J. Alesch and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-10-02 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The negative consequences of natural hazard events are staggering and growing. Governments are acting to increase community resilience, reduce losses, and facilitate recovery, but these actions do not always yield anticipated consequences. This book is a compelling interdisciplinary analysis of California’s efforts to ensure that acute care hospitals survive earthquakes and continue to function in the aftermath. The book weaves together several threads essential to understanding the effectiveness of public policies intended to reduce the consequences of natural hazard events: public policy design and administration, the hazard mitigation investment decision made by targeted organizations, and contextual dynamics. "A terrific study of shortfalls in the implementation of risk-reduction policy -- highly readable, full of insights, and very policy relevant." Peter J. May, Donald R. Matthews Distinguished Professor of American Politics, University of Washington, Seattle USA "This is an exceptional book by three of the leading hazard mitigation researchers and must reading for both scholars and practitioners in the field." William A. Anderson, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences.
Author : Keith E. Kesner
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Development of Seismic Strengthening and Retrofit Strategies for Critical Facilities Using Engineered Cementitious Composite Materials written by Keith E. Kesner and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Shūichi Fujikura
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Experimental and Analytical Investigation of Blast Performance of Seismically Resistant Bridge Piers written by Shūichi Fujikura and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : California. Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)
Download or read book Summary of Hospital Seismic Performance Ratings written by California. Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Meade
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (857 download)
Download or read book SB1953 and the Challenge of Hospital Seismic Safety in California written by Charles Meade and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Experimental Investigation of Full-scale Two-story Steel Plate Shear Walls with Reduced Beam Section Connections written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Seismic Considerations written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Performance of Seismic Isolation Hardware Under Service and Seismic Loading written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : California. Seismic Safety Commission
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Annual Report written by California. Seismic Safety Commission and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
