Science of Societal Safety : Living at Times of Risks and Disasters.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Abe, Seiji.
Other Authors: Ozawa, Mamoru., Kawata, Yoshiaki.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer, 2018.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Trust Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Abbreviations
  • Part I: Human Societies and Societal Safety Sciences
  • Chapter 1: What Do Societal Safety Sciences Aim at?
  • 1.1 Is the Unexpected and the Unpredictable on the Steady Increase in the Twenty-First Century?
  • 1.1.1 Unexpected Accidents
  • 1.1.2 Unexpected Accidents and Societal Safety
  • 1.2 Alleviating and Living with Disasters?
  • 1.2.1 Purpose of Societal Safety Sciences
  • 1.2.2 Hazards, Incidents, Accidents, and Disasters
  • 1.2.3 Reducing and Coping with Risks?
  • 1.3 Building Safe and Secure Society Together
  • 1.3.1 Events That Threaten Human and Examining Them
  • 1.3.2 Societal Safety Sciences as a Field of Synthetic Science
  • 1.3.3 Methodologies and Problems with Societal Safety Sciences
  • References
  • Chapter 2: Advancement in Science and Technology and Human Societies
  • 2.1 Advancement in Science and Technology and Changes in Human Societies
  • 2.1.1 Human History and Transition of Population
  • 2.1.2 Background of Population Increase During Early Stages of Industrial Revolution and Its Historical Meaning
  • 2.1.3 Problems We Face in the Modern Society
  • 2.2 Birth of Megacities and High-Speed Mass Transportation
  • 2.2.1 Modern Societies and Megacities
  • 2.2.2 Transportation Systems That Support Modern Societies
  • 2.2.3 Disasters and Vulnerability of Megacities
  • 2.3 ICT, AI, and the Modern Society
  • 2.3.1 Development of ICT and Highly Advanced Information Society
  • 2.3.2 Information Security in the Information Society
  • 2.3.3 AI and Safety and Security in Human Society
  • References
  • Chapter 3: Contemporary Societies and Risk
  • 3.1 How People Cope with Risks in Contemporary Societies
  • 3.1.1 Risk Perception by Human
  • 3.1.2 Significance of Risk Perception for Resolving Social Problems
  • 3.1.3 Contemporary Societies and Mass Media.
  • 3.2 Evaluation and Measures Against Risks in Contemporary Societies
  • 3.2.1 Purpose of Risk Evaluation
  • 3.2.2 Understanding Disasters
  • 3.2.3 Difference in Evaluations of Natural and Social Disaster Risks
  • 3.2.4 Discussion on Global Risk
  • References
  • Chapter 4: Modern Societies and Establishment of Scholarship
  • 4.1 Human Societies and the Start of Scholarship
  • 4.1.1 Origin of Scholarship
  • 4.1.2 Decline of Scholarship in the West and Its Development in the Arabic Regions
  • 4.1.3 Birth of Universities and the Twelfth-Century Renaissance
  • 4.2 Birth of Modern Science
  • 4.2.1 Pioneers of Modern Science
  • 4.2.2 Birth of Academic Societies and Specialized Fields
  • 4.3 Advancement of Scholarship and Specialization
  • 4.4 Births of Safety Engineering, Disaster Science, and Risk Analysis
  • References
  • Part II: Events That Threaten Human and Its Societies
  • Chapter 5: Human, Nature, and Artificial Products
  • 5.1 Environment That Surrounds Human and Societies
  • 5.2 Hazards in Natural and Social Environments
  • 5.3 Development of Hazards into Accidents and Disasters
  • 5.4 Risks for Evaluating Accidents and Disasters
  • 5.5 Problems That Are Common to Accidents and Disasters
  • References
  • Chapter 6: Natural Disasters
  • 6.1 History of Natural Disasters in the Japanese Islands
  • 6.1.1 Disaster Environments of Japan
  • 6.1.2 Natural Disasters Up to the Mid-eighteenth Century (End of Edo Era)
  • 6.1.3 Natural Disasters in the Mid-eighteenth Century (Meiji Era) and After
  • 6.1.4 Changes in Disasters Caused by Changes in Social Environment
  • 6.2 Earthquakes and Volcanic Eruptions
  • 6.2.1 Mechanisms of Earthquakes and Volcanic Eruptions
  • 6.2.2 Earthquake Disasters and Their Transition
  • 6.2.3 Predicting and Countering Earthquake Damages
  • 6.2.4 Volcanic Eruptions and Their Transition.
  • 6.2.5 Predicting and Countering Volcanic Eruptions
  • 6.3 Ground and Sediment Disasters
  • 6.3.1 Types of Ground Disasters and Mechanisms of Their Occurrences
  • 6.3.2 Types of Sediment Disasters and Mechanisms of Their Occurrences
  • 6.3.3 Ground and Sediment Disasters
  • 6.3.4 Preparations for Preventing Ground and Sediment Disasters, Measurement, and Monitoring
  • 6.4 Hydrosphere Disasters
  • 6.4.1 Mechanisms
  • 6.4.2 Scenes of Damages
  • 6.4.3 Damage Mitigation
  • References
  • Chapter 7: Social Disasters and Damages
  • 7.1 Social Disasters and Damages
  • 7.1.1 Accidents with Infrastructures
  • 7.1.2 Accidents with Industrial Products
  • 7.1.3 Automobile Accidents
  • 7.1.4 Drug Toxicity and Safety in Medical Care
  • 7.2 Human Errors and Accidents
  • 7.2.1 Hazardous Human Errors
  • 7.2.2 Human Errors and Accidents
  • 7.2.3 Human Errors and Accident Prevention
  • 7.3 History of Major Social Disasters and Their Countermeasures
  • 7.3.1 History of Social Disasters and Accidents
  • 7.3.2 Overview at Major Measures Against Social Disaster
  • References
  • Chapter 8: Environmental Risks
  • 8.1 Change in Biological System and Risk of Infection
  • 8.1.1 Accidents with Infrastructures
  • 8.1.1.1 Spread of Plague in Medieval Europe
  • 8.1.1.2 Dengue Fever Front Moving North with Warming and Increased Risk of Infection
  • 8.1.2 Changes in Lifestyle and Risks of Infection
  • 8.1.2.1 Worldwide Spread of Cholera in the Nineteenth Century
  • 8.1.2.2 Once a National Disease for Japan, Tuberculosis
  • 8.1.2.3 HIV/AIDS Continues to Spread
  • 8.1.3 Risks of Pandemic with Infection to New Influenza and Alike
  • 8.2 Risks of Climate Changes and Their Countermeasures
  • 8.2.1 Risk of Climate Changes
  • 8.2.2 International Actions Toward Climate Change Risks
  • 8.3 Environmental Risks and Their Countermeasures
  • 8.3.1 Environmental Risks of Chemical Substances.
  • 8.3.2 Higher Concerns over Environmental Risks and Changes in Countermeasures
  • 8.3.3 Managing Environmental Risks
  • 8.3.4 Problems in Environmental Risk Management of Chemical Substances
  • References
  • Chapter 9: War, Crimes, and Terrorism
  • 9.1 War, Crimes, Terrorism, and Societal Safety Sciences
  • 9.2 War, Its Damages and Causes
  • 9.3 Damages from Crimes
  • 9.3.1 World Comparison of Crimes
  • 9.3.2 Trend of Crimes in Japan
  • 9.4 Terrorism
  • 9.4.1 Trend of Terrorism
  • 9.4.2 Changes with Terrorism
  • 9.4.3 Measures for Terrorism Prevention: Case of the United Kingdom
  • 9.4.4 Current State of Terrorism Prevention in Japan and Problems
  • References
  • Part III: Risk Analysis and Management
  • Chapter 10: Methods in Risk Analysis
  • 10.1 Evaluation and Probabilities of Risks
  • 10.2 Analysis and Forecast Models of Risks
  • 10.3 Decision-Making for Risk Minimization
  • Chapter 11: Risk Management
  • 11.1 What Is Risk Management?
  • 11.1.1 Nature of Risk Management
  • 11.1.2 Concept of Risk
  • 11.1.3 Elements of Risk
  • 11.1.4 Process of Risk Management
  • 11.1.5 Establishing the Context
  • 11.2 Risk Assessment
  • 11.2.1 Risk Assessment
  • 11.2.2 Risk Identification
  • 11.2.3 Risk Analysis and Evaluation
  • 11.3 Risk Treatment
  • 11.4 Executing Risk Management
  • 11.4.1 Communication: Sharing Understanding about Risk Treatment
  • 11.4.2 Coordination: Organizational Structure of Risk Management
  • References
  • Chapter 12: Risk Communication and Disaster Information
  • 12.1 Risk Communication
  • 12.1.1 What Is Risk Communication?
  • 12.1.2 What Information to Provide with Risk Communication
  • 12.1.3 Roles of the Sender and Receiver of Risk Communication
  • 12.1.4 Risk Communication of Societal Risk and Personal Risk
  • 12.2 Disaster Information
  • 12.2.1 Importance of Disaster Information
  • 12.2.2 Transferring Emergency Information.
  • 12.2.3 Transferring Reconstruction Information
  • 12.2.4 Information for Awareness and Promotion
  • 12.3 Disaster Education
  • 12.3.1 Transition of Concept of Learning and Disaster Education in Need
  • 12.3.2 Disaster Education as an Opportunity for Mutual Communication
  • 12.3.3 Importance of Sharing the Meaning of Disaster Management
  • References
  • Chapter 13: Crisis Management
  • 13.1 What Is Crisis Management?
  • 13.1.1 Meaning of Crisis
  • 13.1.2 Significance of Crisis Management
  • 13.1.3 Relation Between Risk Management and Crisis Management
  • 13.1.4 FinksĖ Crisis Management Theory
  • 13.2 Crisis Management of the Administration
  • 13.2.1 Origin of Crisis Management: Cuban Missile Crisis
  • 13.2.2 Crisis Management by the Japanese Government
  • 13.2.3 USA that Learned Its Lesson: Summary of Disaster Crisis Management
  • 13.3 Crisis Management of Corporations
  • References
  • Part IV: Social Mechanisms for Disaster Management
  • Chapter 14: Public Systems for Disaster Management
  • 14.1 Societal Safety and Legal System
  • 14.1.1 What Is Law? System of Law
  • 14.1.2 Corporations and Societal Safety
  • 14.1.3 Central and Local Governments and Societal Safety
  • 14.2 Administrative System and Societal Safety
  • 14.2.1 Concept of Nation and Societal Safety: Watchman State and Welfare State
  • 14.2.2 Societal Safety and Administrative Offices
  • 14.2.2.1 Police and Administration
  • 14.2.2.2 Self-Defense and Administration
  • 14.2.2.3 Natural Disasters and Administration in Japan
  • 14.2.2.4 Advancement of Scientific Technology and Administration
  • 14.2.2.5 Health Maintenance and Administration in Japan
  • 14.2.2.6 Traffic and Administration
  • 14.2.2.7 Consumers and Administration
  • 14.3 Standardization and Standards
  • 14.3.1 Value and Convenience of Standardization
  • 14.3.1.1 What Is Standardization?.
  • 14.3.1.2 Value of Standardization and Problems.