Book chapter
Learning from Earthquake Disasters
Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering, pp.1295-1311
Springer
2015
Abstract
The United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) defines disaster as the “serious disruption of the functioning of a community or society involving widespread human, material economic or environmental losses and impacts, which exceeds the ability of the affected community or society to cope using its own resources” (UNISDR 2014)...
Details
- Title
- Learning from Earthquake Disasters
- Authors/Creators
- S. Beaven (Author/Creator)T. Wilson (Author/Creator)L. Johnston (Author/Creator)D. Johnston (Author/Creator)R. Smith (Author/Creator)
- Contributors
- M. Beer (Editor)I.A. Kougioumtzoglou (Editor)E. Patelli (Editor)S.K. Au (Editor)
- Publication Details
- Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering, pp.1295-1311
- Publisher
- Springer
- Identifiers
- 991005542461707891
- Copyright
- © 2015 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Murdoch University
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
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