Urban Disaster Prevention Science

Author: Wan Yanhua
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Publish Date: 2003-02-24
Features: This book systematically elaborates on the fields of disasters, urban disasters, urban disaster prevention, and related research. It analyzes major urban disasters such as earthquakes, floods, geological disasters, fires, and air raids, and provides an overview of urban disaster risk analysis and assessment as well as urban comprehensive disaster prevention systems. It places special emphasis on the methods and procedures of urban disaster prevention planning and engineering design, particularly in seismic disaster prevention, flood control, fire protection, civil air defense, and geological disaster prevention. The book employs multidisciplinary knowledge, combining focus with general principles and micro-level with macro-level research. While ensuring the systematicity and completeness of urban disaster prevention subject content, it highlights the key aspects of urban disaster prevention planning and design. This approach makes the book both theoretically sound and forward-looking, while also practical and operational. It can serve as a teaching material for undergraduate urban planning programs and is also suitable for researchers, designers, and administrative personnel in urban planning, urban science, and related fields.