Social and economic aspects of earthquake, proceedings of the third international conference, Bled, Yugoslavia (June 29 - July 2 1981).

Conference Dates 29 June - 2 July 1981

Vol 1 Section 1: Socio-economic aspects of hazards, risks and vulnerability. Settlement and change in 'Basal zone ecotones': an interpretation of the geography of earthquake risk by Kenneth Hewitt; Land degradation in Kenya: economic or social crisis? by Randall Baker; Disaster and soicosystemic vulnerability by Carlo Pelanda. Section 2: Hazard assessment, risk analysis and vulnerability determination. Problems of earthquake hazard assessment and vulnerability analysis by Vit Karnik; Social and economic aspects of seismic risk by Janez Lapajne; The problem of assessing seismic risk to existing buildings by E. M. Fournier d'Albe; Risk criteria as a rational basis for seismic resistance of structures of different grades by Wiratman Wangsadinata; Earthquakes as a social problem by Viktor Turnsek; Estimates of building stocks as a basis for determining risk by Barclay G. Jones. Section 4: Estimating economic impacts of earthquakes and mitigation measures. Modeling regional economic impacts of earthquakes by Jerome W. Millman; The benefits and costs of seismic building codes by William D. Schulze, David S. Brookshire, John Tschirhart and Rhonda K. Hageman. Vol 2: Section 5: Attitudes towards risk. Disaster subcultures in earthquake country: between earthquakes in Southern California by Ralph H. Turner; Public response to mandated earthquake hazard disclosure by Real Estate Agents by Risa Palm; Some aspects of earthquake prediction in Japan by Ritsuo Akimoto; A false alarm at Pozzuoli, Italy by Charles A. Chandessais; Warning and response to the Mount St. Helens eruption by Thomas F. Saarien. Section 6: Governmental roles in reducing vulnerability. Formulating and implementing policies for seismic saftey by Stanley Scott; The California Seismic Saftey Commission, 1975-80: public policy and a practitioner's observations by Robert A. Olsen; Implementing seismic safety policy: the case of local governments in California by Alan J. Wyner. Section 7: Planning as a tool for vulnerability reduction. Spatial and urban planning and development in earthquake-prone areas by Vladimir Braco Music; Urban scale vulnerability: some implications for planning by Myer R. Wolfe and Susan G. Heikkala; Earthquake sciences and city planning are still disconnected by Aydin Germen; Physical planning in seismic regions by Tiberije Kirijas. Section 8: Education and information in reducing vulnerability and managing emergencies. The organization of a mass education program in order to mitigate earthquake hazards in Calabria by Francesco Battisti; Media coverage of disaster: the same old story by T. Joseph Scanlon and Suzanne Aldred. Section 9: Emergency management to mitigate impact. Models of emergency planning: contributions from the social sciences by Russell R. Dynes; In the spirit of William James: reflections on League of Red Cross Societies experience of earthquakes by Esno V. Bighinatti; Disasters epidemiology. An epidemiologist's view of health management in disasters by Michael F. Lechat. Section 10: Post-disaster response. Social and economic aspects in the mitigation of earthquake disaster by Harum Alrasjid; Rescue operations after an earthquake by Polde Stukelj; Guidelines and procedures used to eliminate the impact of the earthquake in the Scoa Valley by Anton Ladava; Social and institutional impact of the 1980 earthquake in Southern Italy: problems and prospects of civil protection by Ada Cavazzani. Vol 3: Section 11: Impact of disasters on socio-economic systems. An extension of the concept of specific destruction of earthquakes on the basis of gross national product of affected countries by Vladimir Ribaric; What is a disaster? An agent specific or an all disaster spectrum approach to socio-behavioral aspects of earthquakes? by E. L. Quarantelli; The use of a crossculturally valid level of living scale for measuring the social and economic effects of earthquakes and other disasters and for measuring progress in recovery and reconstruction as