GIS for Emergency Preparedness and Health Risk Reduction

by David J. Briggs (editor)

Preface. Acknowledgements. Part GIS for emergency preparedness and health risk concepts and principles. 1. Preparing for environmental health the role of GIS; D. Briggs, L. Beale. 2. Timelines, environments and issues of risk in the practical algebra of (x, y, t, a); P. Forer. 3. Social models of vulnerability and empowerment; A. Staines. 4. Uncertainty in the application of GIS for predictive health risk assessment for a radioactive waste repository in Slovenia; B. Kontic, et al. Part GIS for emergency preparedness. 5. Evaluation of volcanic fallout impact from Vesuvius using GIS; M.T. Pareschi. 5. Volcanic risk assessment and spatial planning policies in the island of Hawaii; U.F. Paleo, F. Trusdell. 7. The risk assessment of hazardous materials transporting using GIS; A. Lovett, et al. 8. A GIS-aided frequency planning for terrestrial broadcasting and land mobile services; S. Topcu, et al. 9. Progress towards harmonised European industrial risk management information systems; C. Kirchsteiger, F. Mushtaq. 10. Application of the Seveso II Directive in Slovenia with the support of GIS; M. Gerbec, B. Kontic. Part GIS for health risk reduction. 11. A European health and environment information system for exposure and disease mapping and risk assessment (EUROHEIS); S. Cockings, L. Järup. 12.Address geocoding for small area en environmental health studies in Denmark; H. Hansen, A. Poulstrup. 13. Health characteristics of the Stockholm population &endash; diseasemapping using a computerised system; C. Reuterwall, et al. 14. Small area statistics on health (SMASH): a system for rapid investigations of cancer in Finland; E. Kokki, et al. 15. Geographical distribution of cardiovascular mortality in Comunidad Valenciana (Spain); J. Ferrándiz, et al. 16. Application of GIS for assessing the risk of water-borne diseases in the Samarkand Province; D. Fayzieva, et al. 17. Geographical aspects of mortality and morbidity data in a GIS analysis; G. Nádor, et al. List of Workshop Participants. Index.

344 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1899

About the author

David Briggs was brought up as the son of a farm-worker in Kent and Sussex, in England, where he gained his love of the countryside. After a career in academia, during which he published widely on the topics of geography, environmental science and environmental health, he took early retirement and moved to New Zealand, where he now lives.

He has always enjoyed writing, and as an escape from university work wrote a number of short stories and children’s stories. An early novel, Figures in a Tuscan Garden, written while he was still working in universities, was short-listed for the UK Constable Trophy but never submitted for publication. Since moving to New Zealand, he has devoted himself to writing novels and poetry. Since moving to New Zealand, he has devoted himself to writing fiction and poetry.

By the Tracks We Leave was self-published through CreateSpace. The Direction of Our Fear was published by BMS Books, in New Zealand, in 2016. The Claim, which was long-listed for the inaugural Michael Gifkins prize in 2018, was published by UK publishers RedDoor in 2019.