Containing papers presented at the 9th International Conference on Computer Simulation in Risk Analysis and Hazard Mitigation this book covers a series of important topics of current research interests and many practical applications. It is concerned with all aspects of risk management and hazard mitigation, associated with both natural and anthropogenic hazards. The analysis and management of risk and the mitigation of hazards is of fundamental importance to planners and researchers around the world. We live in an increasingly complex society with the potential for disasters on a worldwide scale. Natural hazards such as floods, earthquakes, landslides, fires and others have always affected human societies. Man-made hazards, however, played a comparatively small role a few centuries ago until the risk of catastrophic events started to increase due to the rapid growth of new technologies. The interaction of natural and anthropogenic risks adds to the complexity of the problem.Topics covered include: Risk Analysis and Assessment; Risk Management; Hazard Prevention, Management and Control; Vulnerability Assessment; Disaster Management; Emergency Management; Flood Hazards; Safety and Security.

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Contents Section 1: Risk analysis and assessment On spatial uncertainty in hazard and risk assessment; Catastrophic oil spill analysis; The acceptability of risks from natural disasters; The principle of Defence-in-Depth in the perspective of Probabilistic Safety Analyses in the wake of Fukushima; Analysis of annual flood peak records in Mexico; A preliminary flood-risk assessment of municipalities located in headwater basins of Slovakia based on the integrated approach; Seismic risk assessment of reinforced concrete buildings; Seismic risk assessment of three types of exterior beam-column joints using fragility curves; A low-cost instrumentation approach for seismic hazard assessment in urban areas; Innovative modeling methodology for mapping of radon potential based on local relationships between indoor radon measurements and environmental geology factors; A novel tool for risk assessment related to chemical attacks; Environmental risk assessment of cement dust on soils and vegetables in an urban city of South Western Nigeria; A game-theoretic approach to assess adversarial risks; Earthquake damage assessment: a theoretical framework and its application to Algerian buildings; A kernel density smoothing method for determining an optimal number of clusters in continuous data; Fuzzy Consensus Qualitative Risk Analysis as a framework for the evaluation of risk events in real estate development projects; Fire risk analysis with a performance-based fire safety engineering approach and FDS models for underground facilities in Gran Sasso National Laboratories; Hydrogen sulphide mapping study for existing facilities Section 2: Risk management A methodology to compare risk management (RM) systems for the application and validation of specific threats in public transportation; Assessing the economic impacts of crises: a decision-support approach to long-term strategic planning; Estimating post- and pre-mitigation contingency in construction; Crew Resource Management and its possible role in nursing risk management; Decision structuring method for the selection of fixed firefighting systems: development and lessons learned from case studies Section 3: Hazard prevention, management and control The roadmap towards a holistic safety culture based on an integrated environmental health and safety solution landscape; A systematic approach to risk reduction measures in the Norwegian offshore oil and gas industry; A review of collective protective measures for workers in contaminated sites Section 4: Vulnerability assessment A gas supply system criticality assessment; The corrosion of stirrups and its effect on the seismic fragility of a corroded reinforced concrete (RC) column Section 5: Disaster management Assessment of the flood disaster management plans for the medical services in Tokyo and Fukuoka, Japan; Tsunami flood risk prediction using a neural network; A disaster severity assessment decision support tool for reducing the risk of failure in response operations; Actions, diagnosis and territorial management of the disaster in the city of Lorca after the earthquake of May 11, 2011; Creating common operational pictures for disaster response with collaborative work; A networking solution for disaster management to address liaison failures in emergency response Section 6: Emergency management Emergency management and an emergency plan for the Gran Sasso National Laboratories: underground laboratories and motorway tunnels; Emergency preparedness of the Czech Red Cross Section 7: Flood hazards Case study: flood impact reduction; Determination of the weighting factors of criteria influencing highway flooding using Multi Criteria Analysis based on an Analytic Hierarchy Process Section 8: Safety and security The safety of marine navigation based on a game theory; Bridging the safety-security software gap; Just and safe housing for informal settlers in the developing world; Safety assurance for a signalling system based on quality management; Circuit model of medical equipment for electrical safety purposes; Mitigating safety risk through confidential reporting