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With the world facing immense challenges, how do we create a safer and more equitable world? Geospatial intelligence offers valuable insights to help organizations and governments protect communities. By using technology to obtain location-based data, these groups can make spatially informed decisions about how best to help people who are most at risk. Learning the technical skills needed to use GIS (geographic information system) to visualize and interpret this data has never been more essential for working to find resolutions for the numerous challenges humanity faces today.  Security First: Geospatial Workflows for a Safe and Equitable World guides readers through 20 specific geospatial workflows and examples to show how GIS can be used to address significant world issues. Whether using spatial data to address food security, human rights violations, environmental justice, or other challenges, Security First is the book you need to work in the human security and geospatial intelligence field. Readers with no prior GIS experience or with an intermediate technical understanding can gain the required technical skills to work in this field through detailed exercises using ArcGIS software and downloadable data.This is the first crowdsourced workbook in the growing field of human security and geospatial intelligence. Contributors and editors include human security and geospatial intelligence professors, students, and professionals.Written for practitioners working in geospatial intelligence and for students and teachers in geospatial intelligence academic programs, Security First helps guide strategic decision-making and get readers on their way incorporating GIS into their work for improved analysis and results. Get the technical and critical-thinking skills you need to work in the growing field of human security and geospatial intelligence. Darren Ruddell is an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Southern California’s Spatial Sciences Institute in Los Angeles, California. His teaching and research efforts use geospatial technologies to investigate and advance issues of human security and geospatial intelligence. Diana Ter-Ghazaryan is an Associate Professor of Spatial Sciences at the University of Southern California’s Spatial Sciences Institute in Los Angeles, California. In her research and teaching experience, she has applied geospatial analysis to diverse pursuits, including international relations and human security.

2024 Edition.The Interagency Standards for Fire and Fire Aviation Operations provides fire and fire aviation program management direction for BLM, USFS, FWS, NPS, and BIA managers. Employees engaged in fire management activities will continue to comply with all agency policies. The Interagency Standards for Fire and Fire Aviation Operations states, references, or supplements policy for Bureau of Land Management (BLM), U.S. Forest Service (USFS), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), National Park Service (NPS), and Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) fire and fire aviation program management. Original source policy is stated or referenced throughout this handbook. This handbook attempts to reference policy, rather than paraphrase policy to limit duplication.

This book provides the latest research and technology advances in building fire safety and smart firefighting. Different experts systemically review the application of new technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, Virtual Reality, Digitalization, and Metaverse in fire safety areas. These multi-disciplinary research and technology fusion will significantly change the fire resilience design and firefighting practices in the next 20 years. Achieving urban fire safety and resilience also plays a key role in developing future smart buildings and cities. This book attracts more young researchers into the latest multi-disciplinary fire safety research and promotes the application of the new technologies in firefighting.

"Considers the long history of ecological burns, the varied ways fire behaves across the state, and the lessons that can be learned from California's largest fires of recent decades"--

The SFPE Guide to Fire Risk Assessment provides guidance to qualified practitioners in developing, selecting, and using fire risk assessment methodologies for the design, construction, and operation of buildings, facilities, or processes. It also addresses fire risk acceptability, the role of fire risk assessment and fire risk management in the fire safety design process, and associated communication/ monitoring of fire risk.The guide Includes a new flow chart that outlines the risk assessment process. It also includes new information related to:Risk PerceptionF-N curvesRisk communicationResidual risk managementRisk monitoringSensitivity analysisThe guide also provides clear guidance on conducting qualitative and quantitative analysis. It also uses examples that reinforce topics discussed.

This book covers the details of computer-aided tools & techniques for improving work culture and minimizing accidents. The construction industry has been considered for employing the highest number of workmen but at the same time, it is also known as a poorly organized sector because of peculiarity in construction. Since construction project activity keeps changing on an hourly basis, it becomes difficult to manage the safety of workers or workplace and therefore, it stands as the second accident-prone industry. Several tools and techniques are introduced in controlling construction accidents concerning time and improvements are recorded. This book has briefly covered various challenges encountered, gaps in implementation, technological developments, and various methods/techniques to reduce construction accidents and highlights of research need for overall improvement of safety. This book is essentially helpful for students, researchers, faculty, and industry professionals.  

This book provides an overview of the initiation of combustion processes of polymeric materials. It presents physicochemical processes associated with heating as well as numerical methods for initiation parameter calculation. In addition, the book describes thermal degradation of polymers and the effect of an incident heat flux on initiation time. It then highlights the most commonly used devices for measuring the time to ignition using external heat sources. The target group of this book are scientists and researchers dealing with materials combustion and also graduates and practitioners focused on fire protection.

This book offers an overview of European testing methods for fire protection materials.Used in a broad range of applications, these materials are designed to ensure that fires do not occur, or that their effects are combated to the greatest extent possible. The book deals with methods not only for the construction industry but also, for example, for furniture / interior furnishings, plastics, and clothing, including special-purpose clothing for firefighters and rescuers, explosive mixtures, the intensity of smoke, etc. This comprehensive book examines standardized testing methods, while also assessing large-scale tests and specialized non-standardized tests and providing information on various materials and their behavior when exposed to flame.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of deaths and injuries from residential fires as well as the most up to date information on evidence-based approaches to reduce this problem. The volume serves as a guide for professionals working in the field of fire prevention and as a textbook for instruction in universities and fire service schools.  The authors' interdisciplinary approach, where public health methodology is combined with fire protection engineering, medicine, and policy science, is quite distinctive outside of the technical literature devoted to larger scale fire events. Traditional textbooks on fire protection tend to describe the problem as purely technical, whereas in essence it is a problem of human vulnerability. In this book, readers will find lucid and rigorous descriptions of various risk groups and effective preventive measures that are effective, both in general and with respect to the different risk groups. They will also find work processes to facilitate risk reduction.  Summarizing state-of-the-art knowledge and giving guidance for the future, both in terms of preventive efforts and ongoing research, Residential Fire Safety: An Interdisciplinary Approach, is ideal for students, educators, and practitioners of residential fire protection.