Overview
- Maximizes reader understanding of the human perspective – not only technical or medical
- Organizes in one place the latest research on an urgent problem
- Appeals to a broad audience of engineers, fire service personnel, health practitioners and policymakers
Part of the book series: The Society of Fire Protection Engineers Series (SFPES)
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Determinants, Mechanisms and Risk Groups
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Front Matter
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Preventive Measures for Residential Fires
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Implementing Evidence-Based Fire Safety Promotion
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About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Ragnar Andersson is with the Division of Risk and Environmental Studies, Karlstad University, Sweden.
Mattias Delin is with Brandforsk – the Swedish Fire Research Foundation, Sweden.
Thomas Gell is with Brandforsk – the Swedish Fire Research Foundation Sweden.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Residential Fire Safety
Book Subtitle: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Editors: Marcus Runefors, Ragnar Andersson, Mattias Delin, Thomas Gell
Series Title: The Society of Fire Protection Engineers Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06325-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-06324-4Published: 28 August 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-06327-5Published: 29 August 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-06325-1Published: 27 August 2022
Series ISSN: 2731-3638
Series E-ISSN: 2731-3646
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 379
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 38 illustrations in colour
Topics: Fire Science, Hazard Control, Building Safety, Psychology, general, Clinical Psychology, Emergency Medicine, Public Policy, Building Construction and Design