Yoshitsugu Hayashi

Disaster Resilient Cities

Concepts and Practical Examples

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Disaster Resilient Cities: Concepts and Practical Examples discusses natural disasters, their complexity, and the exploration of different ways of thinking regarding the resilience of structures. The book provides a blueprint for structural designers to better prepare structures for all types of natural hazards during the design stage. Brief and readable, this book analyzes various examples of disaster damage from earthquakes, tsunamis, and floods, together with their causal mechanisms. Practical methods to plan and design structures based on their regions, cities, as well as the particular countermeasures are also included for study. Propose… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Suzuki, Yasuhiro / Sato, Shinji / Tsukahara, Kenichi

ISBN: 978-0-12-810394-4
EAN: 9780128103944
Produktnummer: 35985398
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 206 S.
Plattform: EPUB

Über den Autor

Yoshitsugu Hayashi is Director of the Center for Sustainable Development and Global Smart City at Chubu University in Japan. He is the author of more than 230 peer-reviewed papers and 40 books. He is Former President of WCTRS, full member of Club of Rome and its chair of the Japan branch, President of Japan Association for Human and Environmental Symbiosis, Vice-President of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Board member of the Engineering Academy of Japan, Associate member of Science Council of Japan, co-editor of Elsevier's journal Transport Policy and Associate Editor of Elsevier's Transportation Research Part D journal. His research areas include urbanization and motorization, smart growth, rail transit systems, Quality of Life, and smart transport and cities.