Sustainable Cities and Resilience: Select Proceedings of Vcdrr 2021 - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9811655421 ISBN 13 : 9789811655425

Editeur : Springer Verlag, Singapore, 2021

Synopsis

City Resilience And Sustainable Infrastructure - An Introduction.- Risk And Resilience Of Railway Infrastructure: An Assessment On Uncertainties Of Rail Accidents To Improve Risk And Resilience Through Long-Term Data Analysis.- Assessing Resilience Of Transportation Networks Under Multi-Hazards: A Review.- Risk Management In Construction Industry.- Achieving Sustainability Goals Through Infrastructure Modifications: Lessons Learnt From COVID 19 Pandemic.- Vulnerability And Impact Assessment Of Extreme Climate Events In The Greek Oil Industry.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

​Dr. Indrajit Pal presently working as Assistant Professor and Chair at Disaster Preparedness, Mitigation, and Management program at the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand. Prior to joining at AIT, Dr. Pal served as a faculty member at Centre for Disaster Management at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie, India (Premier National Institute for training Indian Administrative Services Officers). Dr. Pal has done extensive work on capacity development of decision-makers, risk assessment and disaster risk governance. Dr. Pal has written 6 books and more than 55 articles in international and national peer-reviewed journals apart from supervising masters and doctoral research. Dr. Pal having about 18 years of experience in research and capacity development on Disaster Risk Management and Governance and Disaster Risk Science and Education. RESEARCH EXPERTISE: Disaster Risk Governance, Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Development, Incident CommandSystem (ICS), GIS / RS in disaster risk management, Climate Change Adaptation, Community Based Disaster Risk Management, Disaster Risk Science and Education, Sustainability, Public Health Risk assessment.

Dr Sreevalsa Kolathayar pursued M.Tech from IIT Kanpur, PhD from Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and served as International Research Staff at UPC BarcelonaTech Spain. He is presently Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Surathkal, Karnataka, India. Dr Sreevalsa has authored six books and over 75 research papers. He is Associate Editor of two International Journals and Executive Guest Editor for one. His research interests include Seismic Hazard Assessment, Geohazards, Earthquake Preparedness, Landslides, and Water geotechnics. The New Indian Express honoured Dr Sreevalsa with South India's Most Inspiring Young Teachers Award. He is in the roster of two technical committees of ASCE Geo-Institute. He received "IEI Young Engineers Award'' by The Institution of Engineers (India), in recognition of his contributions in the field of Civil Engineering.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer Verlag, Singapore
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9811655421
• ISBN 13: 9789811655425
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 506
• Éditeur: Pal Indrajit, Kolathayar Sreevalsa
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