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GIS for Emergency Preparedness and Health Risk Reduction

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Editors:
  1. David J. Briggs

    1. Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, UK

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  2. Pip Forer

    1. Department of Geography, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

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  3. Lars Järup

    1. Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, UK

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  4. Richard Stern

    1. Risk Management Systems, Copenhagen, Denmark

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Part of the book series: NATO Science Series: IV: (NAIV, volume 11)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. GIS for emergency preparedness and health risk reduction: concepts and principles

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Preparing for Environmental Health Emergencies: The Role of GIS

      • David Briggs, Linda Beale
      Pages 3-34

    3. Timelines, Environments and Issues of Risk in Health: The Practical Algebra of (x,y,t,a)

      • Pip Forer
      Pages 35-60

    4. Social Models of Disaster: Vulnerability and Empowerment

      • Anthony Staines
      Pages 61-76

    5. Uncertainty in the Application of GIS for Predictive Health Risk Assessment for a Radioactive Waste Repository in Slovenia

      • Branko Kontic, Marc Gerbec, David Briggs
      Pages 77-97

  3. GIS for emergency preparedness

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99
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    2. Evaluation of Volcanic Fallout Impact from Vesuvius Using GIS

      • Maria Teresa Pareschi
      Pages 101-114

    3. Volcanic Risk Assesment and Spatial Planning Policies in the Island of Hawai’i

      • Urbano Fra Paleo, Frank Trusdell
      Pages 115-135

    4. The Risk Assessment of Hazardous Materials Transportation Using GIS

      • Andrew Lovett, Simon Jude, Julian Parfitt, Julii Brainard
      Pages 137-155

    5. A GIS-Aided Frequency Planning Tool for Terrestrial Broadcasting and Land Mobile Services

      • Satilmiş Topcu, Hayrettin Köymen, Ayhan Altintaş, İrşadi Aksun
      Pages 157-171

    6. Progress Towards Harmonised European Industrial Risk Management Information Systems

      • Christian Kirchsteiger, Fesil Mushtaq
      Pages 173-191

    7. Application of the Seveso II Directive in Slovenia with the Support of GIS

      • Marc Gerbec, Branko Kontic
      Pages 193-203

  4. GIS for health risk reduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 205-205
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    2. A European Health and Environment Information System for Exposure and Disease Mapping and Risk Assessment (EUROHEIS)

      • Samantha Cockings, Lars Jårup
      Pages 207-225

    3. Address Geocoding for Small Area Environmental Health Studies in Denmark

      • Henrik L. Hansen, Arne Poulstrup
      Pages 227-240

    4. Health Characteristics of the Stockholm Population — Disease Mapping Using a Computerised System

      • Christina Reuterwall, Annika Gustavsson, Niklas Hammar
      Pages 241-253

    5. Small Area Statistics on Health (SMASH): A System for Rapid Investigations of Cancer in Finland

      • Esa Kokki, Eero Pukkala, Pia Verkasalo, Juha Pekkanen
      Pages 255-266

    6. Geographical Distribution of Cardiovascular Mortality in Comunidad Valenciana (Spain)

      • Juan Ferrándiz, Juan J. Abellán, Antonio López, Pilar Sanmartín, Hermelinda Vanaclocha, Oscar Zurriaga et al.
      Pages 267-282

    7. Application of GIS for Assessing the Risk of Water-Borne Diseases in the Samarkand Province

      • Dilorom Fayzieva, Rustam Lutfullaev, Felix Pertziger
      Pages 283-292
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Geographical Information Systems (GIS) have developed rapidly in recent years and now provide powerful tools for the capture, manipulation, integration, interrogation, modelling, analysis and visualisation of data - tools that are already used for policy support in a wide range of areas at almost all geographic and administrative levels. This holds especially for emergency preparedness and health risk reduction, which are all essentially spatial problems. To date, however, many initiatives have remained disconnected and uncoordinated, leading to less powerful, less compatible and less widely implemented systems than might otherwise have been the case.
The important matters discussed here include the probabilistic nature of most environmental hazards and the semi-random factors that influence interactions between these and human exposures; the effects of temporal and spatial scales on hazard assessment and imputed risk; the effects of measurement error in risk estimation and the stratification of risks and their impacts according to socioeconomic characteristics; and the quantification of socioeconomic differences in vulnerability and susceptibility to environmental hazards.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, UK

    David J. Briggs, Lars Järup

  • Department of Geography, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

    Pip Forer

  • Risk Management Systems, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Richard Stern

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