Disaster management and human health risk
Subtitle: reducing risk, improving outcomes
By: editors, K. Duncan, C.A. Brebbia
Contributors: International Conference on Disaster Management and Human Health (1st)
Series: WIT transactions on the built environment -- v. 110
Publisher: WIT Press; Computational Mechanics
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Southampton, UK; Billerica, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9781845642020
Subjects: Disaster relief; Public health
Description: Today the world faces unparalleled threats from human-made disasters that can be attributed to failure of industrial and energy installation as well as to terrorism. Added to this is the unparalleled threat of emerging and re-emerging diseases, with scientists predicting events such as an influenza pandemic.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.