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GIS for emergency preparedness and health risk reduction / edited by David J. Briggs ... [et al.].
- Title
- GIS for emergency preparedness and health risk reduction / edited by David J. Briggs ... [et al.].
- Author
- NATO Advanced Research Workshop on GIS for Emergency Preparedness and Health Risk Reduction (2001 : Budapest, Hungary)
- Publication
- Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c2002.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Briggs, David J. (David John), 1948-
- Description
- xii, 326 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- NATO science series: IV- Earth and environmental sciences ; 11
- Uniform Title
- NATO science series. Series IV, Earth and environmental sciences ; v. 11.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Congress.
- Note
- "Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on GIS for Emergency Preparedness and Health Risk Reduction, Budapest, April 22-25, 2001."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 1. Preparing for environmental health emergencies: the role of GIS / David Briggs and Linda Beale -- 2. Timelines, environments and issues of risk in health: the practical algebra of (x,y,t,a) / Pip Forer -- 3. Social models of disaster: vulnerability and empowerment / Anthony Staines -- 4. Uncertainty in the application of GIS for predictive health risk assessment for a radioactive waste repository in Slovenia / Branko Kontic, Marc Gerbec and David Briggs -- 5. Evaluation of volcanic fallout impact from Vesuvius using GIS / Maria Teresa Pareschi -- 6. Volcanic risk assessment and spatial planning policies in the island of Hawai'i / Urbano Fra Paleo and Frank Trusdell -- 7. The risk assessment of hazardous materials transportation using GIS / Andrew Lovett, Simon Jude, Julian Parfitt and Julii Brainard -- 8. A GIS-aided frequency planning tool for terrestrial broadcasting and land mobile services / Satilmis Topcu, Hayrettin Koymen, Ayhan Altintas and Irsadi Aksun -- 9. Progress towards harmonised European industrial risk management information systems / Christian Kirchsteiger and Fesil Mushtaq -- 10. Application of the Seveso II Directive in Slovenia with the support of GIS / Marc Gerbec and Branko Kontic -- 11. A European health and environment information system for exposure and disease mapping and risk assessment (EUROHEIS) / Samantha Cockings and Lars Jarup -- 12. Address geocoding for small area environmental health studies in Denmark / Henrik L. Hansen and Arne Poulstrup -- 13. Health characteristics of the Stockholm population - disease mapping using a computerised system / Christina Reuterwall, Annika Gustavsson and Niklas Hammar -- 14. Small area statistics on health (SMASH): a system for rapid investigations of cancer in Finland / Esa Kokki, Eero Pukkala, Pia Verkasalo and Juha Pekkanen -- 15. Geographical distribution of cardiovascular mortality in Comunidad Valenciana (Spain) / Juan Ferrandiz, Juan J. Abellan, Antonio Lopez, Pilar Sanmartin, Hermelinda Vanaclocha, Oscar Zurriaga, Miguel A. Martinez-Beneito, Inmaculada Melchor and Julia Calabuig -- 16. Application of GIS for assessing the risk of water-borne diseases in the Samarkand Province / Dilorom Fayzieva, Rustam Lutfullaev and Felix Pertziger -- 17. Geographical aspects of mortality and morbidity data in Hungary: a GIS analysis / Gizella Nador, Anna Paldy, Marta Zsamboki-Bakacs, Alan Pinter and Istvan Vincze.
- ISBN
- 1402007981 (hb : alk. paper)
- 140200799X
- LCCN
- 2002030080
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries