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Author : Building Research Association of New Zealand
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 7 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (828 download)
Download or read book Learnings from the Canterbury Earthquakes written by Building Research Association of New Zealand and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Annie Potts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781927145500
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (455 download)
Download or read book Animals in Emergencies written by Annie Potts and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the 7.1 magnitude earthquake that shook Canterbury on 4 September 2010, the news media were quick to report, with understandable relief, that no lives had been lost. In fact, this first quake killed at least 3000 chickens, eight cows, one dog, a lemur and 150 aquarium fish, and that was only the first of a series of even more catastrophic quakes that were to follow, in which many humans and animals perished. Animals in Emergencies: Learning from the Christchurch Earthquakes provides a record of what happened to the animals during and after these quakes, and asks what we can learn from these events and our response to them. The accounts of professionals and volunteers involved in the rescue, shelter and advocacy of the city's animals post-quakes are presented in the first part of the book, and are followed by the tales of individual animals. These accounts provide an honest and compelling historical record of how Christchurch's seismic activity affected human-animal relationships in both positive and negative ways. We share our lives with a variety of companion animals, including dogs, cats, horses, fish, birds, rats, rabbits, guinea pigs and turtles, and the stories of how the Canterbury earthquakes affected these animals are absorbing, sometimes heart-breaking and often heart-warming. The book also reports on the fate of urban wildlife such as hedgehogs, eels and seabirds, in the aftermath of liquefaction and other damage caused by the more than 20,000 aftershocks since the first major earthquake, and considers the particular risks to animals most vulnerable when disasters strike - those confined on farms and in laboratories.
Author : Ann Winstanley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780478198249
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (982 download)
Download or read book Supporting Communication Around the Canterbury Earthquakes and Other Risks written by Ann Winstanley and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Judith A. Davey
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ISBN 13 : 9780477103930
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Earthquake Preparedness in an Ageing Society written by Judith A. Davey and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mike Cosman
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Health and Safety Lessons Learnt from the Canterbury Earthquake Response written by Mike Cosman and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309186773
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book National Earthquake Resilience written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2011-09-09 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States will certainly be subject to damaging earthquakes in the future. Some of these earthquakes will occur in highly populated and vulnerable areas. Coping with moderate earthquakes is not a reliable indicator of preparedness for a major earthquake in a populated area. The recent, disastrous, magnitude-9 earthquake that struck northern Japan demonstrates the threat that earthquakes pose. Moreover, the cascading nature of impacts-the earthquake causing a tsunami, cutting electrical power supplies, and stopping the pumps needed to cool nuclear reactors-demonstrates the potential complexity of an earthquake disaster. Such compound disasters can strike any earthquake-prone populated area. National Earthquake Resilience presents a roadmap for increasing our national resilience to earthquakes. The National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) is the multi-agency program mandated by Congress to undertake activities to reduce the effects of future earthquakes in the United States. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)-the lead NEHRP agency-commissioned the National Research Council (NRC) to develop a roadmap for earthquake hazard and risk reduction in the United States that would be based on the goals and objectives for achieving national earthquake resilience described in the 2008 NEHRP Strategic Plan. National Earthquake Resilience does this by assessing the activities and costs that would be required for the nation to achieve earthquake resilience in 20 years. National Earthquake Resilience interprets resilience broadly to incorporate engineering/science (physical), social/economic (behavioral), and institutional (governing) dimensions. Resilience encompasses both pre-disaster preparedness activities and post-disaster response. In combination, these will enhance the robustness of communities in all earthquake-vulnerable regions of our nation so that they can function adequately following damaging earthquakes. While National Earthquake Resilience is written primarily for the NEHRP, it also speaks to a broader audience of policy makers, earth scientists, and emergency managers.
Author : Erica Seville
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ISBN 13 : 9780478199017
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Organisations Disruption and Resilience written by Erica Seville and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 : 9780478389463
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (894 download)
Download or read book Stories of Resilience and Innovation in Schools and Early Childhood Services written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Cloke
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000839400
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Post-Earthquake City written by Paul Cloke and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-02-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book critically assesses Christchurch, New Zealand as an evolving post-earthquake city. It examines the impact of the 2010–13 Canterbury earthquake sequence, employing a chronological structure to consider ‘damage and displacement’, ‘recovery and renewal’ and ‘the city in transition’. It offers a framework for understanding the multiple experiences and realities of post-earthquake recovery. It details how the rebuilding of the city has occurred and examines what has arisen in the context of an unprecedented opportunity to refashion land uses and social experience from the ground up. A recurring tension is observed between the desire and tendency of some to reproduce previous urban orthodoxies and the experimental efforts of others to fashion new cultures of progressive place-making and attention to the more-than-human city. The book offers several lessons for understanding disaster recovery in cities. It illuminates the opportunities disasters create for both the reassertion of the familiar and the emergence of the new; highlights the divergence of lived experience during recovery; and considers the extent to which a post-disaster city is prepared for likely climate futures. The book will be valuable reading for critical disaster researchers as well as geographers, sociologists, urban planners and policy makers interested in disaster recovery.
Author : Federica Ranghieri
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 1464801541
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (648 download)
Download or read book Learning from Megadisasters written by Federica Ranghieri and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2014-06-26 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While not all natural disasters can be avoided, their impact on a population can be mitigated through effective planning and preparedness. These are the lessons to be learned from Japan's own megadisaster: the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011, the fi rst disaster ever recorded that included an earthquake, a tsunami, a nuclear power plant accident, a power supply failure, and a large-scale disruption of supply chains. It is a sad fact that poor communities are often hardest hit and take the longest to recover from disaster. Disaster risk management (DRM) should therefore be taken into account as a major development challenge, and countries must shift from a tradition of response to a culture of prevention and resilience. Learning from Megadisasters: Lessons from the Great East Japan Earthquake consolidates a set of 36 Knowledge Notes, research results of a joint study undertaken by the Government of Japan and the World Bank. These notes highlight key lessons learned in seven DRM thematic clusters—structural measures; nonstructural measures; emergency response; reconstruction planning; hazard and risk information and decision making; the economics of disaster risk, risk management, and risk fi nancing; and recovery and relocation. Aimed at sharing Japanese cutting-edge knowledge with practitioners and decision makers, this book provides valuable guidance to other disaster-prone countries for mainstreaming DRM in their development policies and weathering their own natural disasters.
Author : Michael Cowan
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Seismic Assessment of Existing Bridges written by Michael Cowan and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan Bouterey
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811302448
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (113 download)
Download or read book Crisis and Disaster in Japan and New Zealand written by Susan Bouterey and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection examines a broad spectrum of natural and human-made disasters that have occurred in Japan and New Zealand, including WWII and the atomic bombing of Japan and two recent major earthquake events, the Great East Japan Earthquake and the Christchurch Earthquake, which occurred in 2011. Through these studies, the book provides important insights into the events themselves and their tragic effects, but most significantly a multidisciplinary take on the different cultural responses to disaster, changing memories of disasters over time, the impacts of disaster on different societies, and the challenges post-disaster in reviving communities and traditional cultural practices. Bringing in humanities and social science perspectives to disaster studies, this collection offers a significant contribution to disaster studies.
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ISBN 13 : 9780473297633
Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (976 download)
Download or read book The Canterbury Earthquakes written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carol Mutch
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ISBN 13 : 9781783508402
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Lessons from Christchurch written by Carol Mutch and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Canterbury earthquakes of 2010 and 2011, in which 185 people died and thousands were injured or made homeless, devastated Christchurch's city centre and surrounding suburbs. They severely damaged the region's landscape and infrastructure. These earthquakes have had significant physical, cultural, social and economic impacts on the city and the region. The earthquakes have been of great interest to scientists and researchers across many fields on local, national and international levels. Whilst multiple forms of inquiry are critical to understand the implications for disaster risk reduction and mitigation strategies, the human stories cannot be left out of such an analysis. This e-book aims to focus on the human stories of disaster response and recovery in order to inform preparedness, prevention, mitigation and management of similar events in the future. This issue brings together papers from researchers working across disciplines, from the humanities and social sciences to emergency medicine and architecture, who have been engaged in documenting the human stories of the Canterbury earthquakes.
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ISBN 13 : 9780908335664
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (356 download)
Download or read book The Canterbury Earthquakes - what are the Lessons for New Zealand’s Built Environment? written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kerren Hedlund
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ISBN 13 : 9780473393427
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (934 download)
Download or read book People in Disasters Conference 2016 written by Kerren Hedlund and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Ardagh
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ISBN 13 : 9781988503066
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Rising from the Rubble written by Michael Ardagh and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do health care workers manage disaster on an unprecedented scale? The 2011 Canterbury earthquakes were more challenging to the region's health system than anyone could have expected. The injured needed immediate treatment, buildings and equipment were badly damaged, aftershocks continued to rock the area, and communities were disrupted by flooding, liquefaction and fear. Despite this, many ordinary people - hospital and laboratory staff, general practitioners (GPs), pharmacists and others - accomplished extraordinary things in the aftermath of such devastation. `Rising from the Rubble' gives a compelling account of those who rallied to maintain and rebuild essential health services, maintaining continuity of care for the most vulnerable - from older people to those with kidney failure - as well as dealing with the significant ongoing impact on mental health. From the immediate emergency response after the earthquakes to sustaining health services over the following years in highly demanding circumstances, the stories of medical staff joining forces, collaborating and volunteering are infused with sadness, pride and even joy. Based on interviews with those who lived and worked through the Canterbury earthquakes, and the authors' own experiences, `Rising from the Rubble' is an inspiring testament to commitment and recovery
