Disaster management and human health risk : reducing risk, improving outcomes /

Disaster management and human health risk : reducing risk, improving outcomes / editors, K. Duncan, C.A. Brebbia. - Southampton, UK : Billerica, MA : WIT Press ; Computational Mechanics, c2009. - 392 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - WIT transactions on the built environment ; v. 110 .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

9781845642020 (hbk.) 1845642023 (hbk.)

2010277026

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015286915 Uk


Disaster relief.
Public health.

HV553 / .D564 2009

363.34