About Book

Social work is a dynamic profession that deals with diverse situations and problems that affect humanity. The problems and situations that social workers deal with vary in terms of type, magnitude, and intensity. Disasters worldwide cause mass destruction to infrastructure, loss of human lives, economic downturn and environmental degradation. They comprise mainly drought, floods, wildfires, animal diseases, earthquakes and tremors, pest infestations, epidemics, and HIV and AIDS. As the number of natural disasters are augmented by the manmade disasters, so is the need of relief work connected to the disasters. There is an enormous role of social work and assistance in disaster mitigation and management. A number of factors come in accord during and after disaster management, the most important of which is providing health care and medicinal support, but equally important are communication establishment. This book deals with the studies of role of social work in disaster preparedness during and after a catastrophe. It explores earthquake disaster monitoring, post disaster virtual revival, social impact assessment, man-made disasters, public awareness, nuclear pollution, contingency planning, resilience science and psychosocial intervention. This book aims at providing the students with thorough insights into the field of emergency management. It explains the complex subject in the most comprehensible and easy to understand language. Most of the topics introduced in this book cover new techniques, technologies and the applications of social work & emergency management. Coherent flow of topics, student-friendly language and extensive use of examples make this book an invaluable source of knowledge.

Preface............................................................................................................v

Chapter 1 Resilience Science for a Resilient Society in Natural Disaster Prone Countries.......................................................................................................1

Abstract...................................................................................................1

1. Introduction............................................................................................2

2. Conclusion............................................................................................21

Chapter 2 Evidence-Based Contingency Planning to Enhance Local Resilience to Flood Disasters.....................................................................................23

Abstract.................................................................................................23

1. Introduction..........................................................................................24

2. Proposal of evidence-based flood contingency planning...........24

3. Case study area...................................................................................26

4. Case study of evidence-based flood contingency planning.......28

5. Conclusions..........................................................................................41

Acknowledgements.............................................................................41

Chapter 3 Experiences from the Fukushima Disaster.........................................43

Abstract.................................................................................................43

1. Introduction..........................................................................................44

2. Critical planning phase of the Fukushima Daiichi plant...........45

3. Effects of the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami.............47

4. Discussion on the possible management problems after

March 11, 2011.....................................................................................51

5. Conclusions and outlook...................................................................60

Acknowledgements.............................................................................61

Chapter 4 Public Awareness and Education for Flooding Disasters..............65

Abstract.................................................................................................65

1. Introduction..........................................................................................66

2. Related work........................................................................................68

3. Model....................................................................................................71

4. Presentation, experiment and survey.............................................81

5. Conclusion............................................................................................84

Chapter 5 Remote Sensing for Natural or Man-made Disasters and

Environmental Changes..........................................................................89

Abstract.................................................................................................89

1. Introduction..........................................................................................89

2. Disaster management and remote sensing....................................91

3. Examples for applying satellite-based information in disaster

management: Case studies..............................................................108

4. Conclusion and outlook..................................................................117

Chapter 6 Disaster Risk Management and Social Impact Assessment:

Understanding Preparedness, Response and Recovery in

Community Projects...............................................................................124

1. Introduction........................................................................................124

2. Some conceptual issues in disaster risk management..............127

3. Risk identification and analysis.....................................................133

4. Livelihoods context for disaster management............................134

5. Integrating disaster risk into community projects through social

impact assessment............................................................................136

6. Integrating hazard and disaster risk into the SIA process......137

7. Critical factors for success...............................................................139

8. Conclusion..........................................................................................140

Chapter 7 Post Disaster Virtual Revival: 3D CG Manual Reconstruction of a

World Heritage Site in Danger...........................................................143

1. Introduction........................................................................................143

2. Historical background......................................................................146

3. Features of 3D CG reconstitution..................................................148

4. Manual 3D CG modeling of very important areas of the

citadel..................................................................................................153

5. Key results..........................................................................................165

6. Conclusion..........................................................................................170

Chapter 8 Earth Observation for Earthquake Disaster Monitoring and

Assessment................................................................................................. 175

1. Introduction........................................................................................175

2. Detecting geological disasters using optical technology for Earth

observation ........................................................................................176

3. Multi-mode radar imaging technology for monitoring earthquake

deformation........................................................................................186

4. The foundation of an earthquake condition simulation and

evaluation system.............................................................................193

5. Conclusion .......................................................................................197

6. Acknowledgement .........................................................................197

Chapter 9 Earthquake Disasters and the Long-Term Health of Rural Men in

Chile: A Case Study for Psychosocial Intervention.......................201

Abstract...............................................................................................201

1. Introduction........................................................................................202

2. Natural disaster management in Chile........................................203

3. Conceptual framework....................................................................204

4. Methodology......................................................................................205

5. Results.................................................................................................207

6. Discussion...........................................................................................211

7. Conclusion..........................................................................................215

Conflict of interest............................................................................216

Chapter 10 Nuclear Pollution in the East China Sea from the Fukushima

Disaster......................................................................................................223

Abstract...............................................................................................223

1. Introduction........................................................................................224

2. Model setup.......................................................................................225

3. Assimilation of the background 137Cs concentration.................228

4. Validation............................................................................................230

5. Impact on the East China coast.....................................................233

6. Concluding remarks.........................................................................238

Acknowledgements...........................................................................239

Citation......................................................................................................243

Index...........................................................................................................245

About Author

Thomas Bell pursued his Master of Science in Risk, Crisis and Disaster Management from Public Research University, Leicester. He serves as a Crisis Management Consultant for a disaster, emergency and risk management organization at Durango. His areas of interest are disaster response technologies, recovery planning and disaster response management. Bell has spent more than a decade in the disaster management industry and has authored numerous articles and books, which have been published worldwide. He is associated with disaster resistance and preparedness communities, which help create awareness about natural disasters and other crisis situations.