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PART 1: Application of emerging technologies in disaster resilience
Chapter 1: Existing, new and emerging technologies for Disaster Resilience Mihoko Sakurai and Rajib Shaw
Chapter 2: Developing the eXtended tangible user interface as an experimental platform for Geo CPS Wanglin Yan, Yoshifumi Murakami, Akinobu Yasuda, Terukazu Makihara, Ryutaro Fujimoto, Shun Nakayama
Chapter 3: Innovation in earthquake early warning system: A case study of EQ Guard Ambika Dabral, Kazuo Sasaki, Yamaimaiti Nizhamudong, Ranit Chatterjee, Rajib Shaw

Chapter 4: Drones for disaster risk reduction and crisis responseTomoyuki Furutani and Masaki Minami
Chapter 5: VR/ AR and its application to disaster risk reductionTomoki Itamiya

PART 2: Communication and community toward disaster resilience
Chapter 6: Communication structure, protocol and data model towards resilient cities in JapanMihoko Sakurai
Chapter 7: A conceptual framework for designing an effective community resilience management systemAmjad Fayoumi, Juliana Sutanto, Andreas Mauthe
Chapter 8: Social media and disaster managementYuko Tanaka
Chapter 9: Use of IT for situation awareness for DRRYuko Murayama
Chapter 10: Emergency communication and use of ICT in disaster managementTamal Mondal, Swaraj Pramanik, Prithviraj Pramanik, Kashi Nath Datta, Partha Sarathi Paul, Sujoy Saha, Subrata Nandi

PART 3: Technologies for decision support
Chapter 11: Experimental command and control center for crisis and disaster management: A Living-Lab approachJaziar Radianti
Chapter 12: Real-time mapping system of shelter conditions for safe evacuationMakoto Kitsuya and Jun Sasaki
Chapter 13: Decision support system and new technologiesYuichiro Usuda

About the Author:

Mihoko Sakurai is an associate professor at the International University of Japan, Center for Global Communications. Her academic background is in information systems and policy design. She has studied effective ways of using information communication technology in Japan's municipal governments. After the devastating Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011, she conducted field research and designed information systems to enhance the handling of future and unexpected disasters, especially for municipalities that have to deliver disaster relief to their residents. Her work related to the 2011 earthquake won the Best Paper Award at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Kaleidoscope Conference (2013) and the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) (2016). Currently she is organising a research project discussing ICT use, disaster management and resilience with Japanese local councils and private enterprises. Her work has been published in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, European Journal of Information Systems, IEEE Communications Magazine, International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, Communications of the Association for Information Systems, Sustainable Cities and Society and in the proceedings of the leading international conferences.

Rajib Shaw is a professor in the Graduate School of Media and Governance of Keio University, Japan. He is also a senior fellow of the Institute of Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) Japan, and the chairperson of the Sustainable Environment and Ecological Development Society (SEEDS) Asia and the Church World Service (CWS) Japan, two Japanese NGOs. He is the co-founder of a Delhi-based social entrepreneur startup, Resilience Innovation Knowledge Academy (RIKA). Earlier, he was the executive director of Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) and was a professor at Kyoto University. His expertise includes disaster governance, community-based disaster risk management, climate change adaptation, urban risk management, and disaster and environmental education. Professor Shaw is the chair of the United Nations Science Technology Advisory Group (STAG) for disaster risk reduction and the co-chair of the Asia Science Technology Academic Advisory Group (ASTAAG). He is also the coordinating lead author for the Asia chapter of IPCC's 6th Assessment Report. He is the editor-in-chief of the Elsevier journal Progress in Disaster Science and the series editor of the Springer book series on disaster risk reduction. Prof. Shaw has published more than 45 books and over 300 academic papers and book chapters.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9789811603594
  • Publisher: Springer
  • Publisher Imprint: Springer
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 260
  • Series Title: Disaster Risk Reduction
  • Sub Title: Practical Cases and Theories
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 9811603596
  • Publisher Date: 25 May 2021
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Weight: 616 gr


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