Disaster Resilient Cities: Concepts and Practical Examples - Softcover

Hayashi, Yoshitsugu

 
9780128098622: Disaster Resilient Cities: Concepts and Practical Examples
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0128098627 ISBN 13: 9780128098622
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2016

Synopsis

Natural disasters are complex phenomena which require Structural Engineering Designers to explore different ways of thinking regarding the resilience of their structures. Structural Engineering and Natural Disaster Resilience: Concept and Practical Examples provides a blueprint for Structural Designers to better prepare structures for all types of natural hazards at the design stage. Brief and readable, Structural Engineering and Natural Disaster Resilience: Concept and Practical Examples analyses various examples of disaster damages of earthquake, tsunami, flood, together with their causal mechanisms. Practical methods to plan and design structures based on their regions, cities, as well as the particular countermeasure.

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About the Authors

Yoshitsugu Hayashi is Distinguished Professor & Director of the Center for Sustainable Development and Global Smart City at Chubu University, Japan, and Distinguished Guest Professor, Tsinghua University, China. He is Executive Committee member of the Club of Rome and Ex-President (2013-19) and Chair of COVID-19 Task Force of WCTRS (World Conference on Transport Research Society). He is the author of more than 230 peer-reviewed papers and 40 books, including Elsevier’s book Disaster Resilient Cities. His research areas include urbanization and motorization, urban smart growth/shrink management, rail transit systems, QOL based project evaluation method replacing cost-economic benefit analysis, and smart transport and cities. He was also a board member of the Engineering Academy of Japan, co-editor of Elsevier’s journal Transport Policy and Associate Editor of Elsevier’s Transportation Research Part D journal.

Professor, Disaster Mitigation Research Center, Nagoya University

Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, the University of Tokyo

Professor, Disaster Risk Reduction Research Center, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University

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Publisher
Butterworth-Heinemann
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0128098627
ISBN 13 
9780128098622
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
206