Disaster Resilient Cities: Concepts and Practical Examples
Yoshitsugu Hayashi · Yasuhiro Suzuki · Shinji Sato · Kenichi Tsukahara
Mar 2016 · Butterworth-Heinemann
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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. - Proposes new methods and policies for enhancing structural resilience for key urban infrastructure - Includes examples of disaster damage as a result of earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, and their structural countermeasures - Presents case studies that cover specific mega disasters, such as the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, Super Typhoon Hyan, and Bangkok flood
About the author
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 UniversityProfessor, Department of Civil Engineering, the University of TokyoProfessor, Disaster Risk Reduction Research Center, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyushu University
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