City Evacuations: An Interdisciplinary Approach

by Michalis Smyrnakis, James King, Tobias Galla, et al.

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 366251236X
• ISBN13: 9783662512364
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"