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.