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Encyclopedia of Natural Hazards
Few subjects have caught the attention of the entire world as much as those dealing with natural hazards. The first decade of this new millennium provides a litany of tragic examples of various hazards that turned into disasters affecting millions of individuals around the globe. The human losses (s...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2013.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2013. |
| Colección: | Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series,
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto Completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- AA-LAVA
- Accelerometer
- Acid Rain
- Adaptation
- Airphoto and Satellite Imagery
- Albedo
- Antecedent Conditions
- Arsenic in Groundwater
- Asteroid
- Asteroid Impact
- Asteroid Impact Mitigation
- Asteroid Impact Predictions
- Automated Local Evaluation in Real Time (ALERT)
- Avalanches
- Aviation (Hazards to)
- Avulsion
- Base Surge
- Beach Nourishment (Replenishment)
- Beaufort Wind Scale
- Biblical Events
- Body Wave
- Breakwaters
- Building Code
- Building Failure
- Buildings, Structures, and Public Safety
- Calderas
- Casualties Following Natural Hazards
- Challenges to Agriculture
- Civil Protection and Crisis Management
- Classification of Natural Disasters
- Climate Change
- Cloud Seeding
- Coal Fire (Underground)
- Coastal Erosion
- Coastal Zone Risk Management
- Cognitive Dissonance
- Collapsing Soil Hazards
- Comet
- Communicating Emergency Information
- Community Management of Natural Hazards
- Complexity Theory
- Concrete Structures
- Convergence
- Coping Capacity
- Cost-Benefit Analysis of Natural Hazard Mitigation
- Costs (Economic) of Natural Hazards and Disasters
- Creep
- Critical Incident Stress Syndrome
- Critical Infrastructure
- Cryological Engineering
- Cultural Heritage and Natural Hazards
- Damage and the Built Environment
- Debris Avalanche
- Debris Flow
- Deep-seated Gravitational Slope Deformation
- Desertification
- Disaster Diplomacy
- Disaster Relief
- Disaster Research and Policy, History
- Disaster Risk Management
- Disaster Risk Reduction
- Disasters
- Dispersive Soil Hazards
- Doppler Weather Radar
- Dose Rate
- Drought
- Dust Bowl
- Dust Devil
- Dust Storm
- Dvorak Classification of Hurricanes
- Early Warning Systems
- Earthquake
- Earthquake Damage
- Earthquake Prediction and Forecasting
- Earthquake Resistant Design
- Economic Valuation of Life
- Economics of Disasters
- Education and Training for Emergency Preparedness
- Elastic Rebound Theory
- Electromagnetic Radiation (EMR)
- El Niño/Southern Oscillation
- Emergency Management
- Emergency Mapping
- Emergency Planning
- Emergency Shelter
- Epicenter
- Epidemiology of Disease in Natural Disasters
- Erosion
- Erosivity
- Eruption Types (Volcanic Eruptions)
- Evacuation
- Expansive Soils and Clays
- Expert (Knowledge-Based) Systems for Disaster Management
- Exposure to Natural Hazards
- Extensometers
- Extinction
- Extreme Value Theory
- Eyjafjallajökull Eruptions 2010
- Fault
- Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
- Fetch
- Fire and Firestorms
- Flash Flood
- Flood Deposits
- Flood Hazard and Disaster
- Flood Protection
- Flood Stage
- Floodplain
- Floodway
- Fog Hazard Mitigation
- Fog Hazards
- Föhn
- Forest and Range Fires
- Frequency and Magnitude of Events
- Frost Hazard
- Fujita Tornado Scale
- Fumarole
- Galeras Volcano, Colombia
- Gas-Hydrates
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Natural Hazards
- Geographic Information Technology
- Geohazards
- Geological/Geophysical Disasters
- Glacier Hazards
- Global Change and its Implications for Natural Disasters
- Global Dust
- Global Network of Civil Society Organizations for Disaster Reduction
- Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and Natural Hazards
- Global Seismograph Network (GSN)
- Haiti Earthquake 2010: Psychosocial Impacts
- Harmonic Tremor
- Hazard
- Hazard and Risk Mapping
- Hazardousness of a Place
- Heat Waves
- High-Rise Buildings in Natural Disaster
- Historical Events
- Hospitals in Disaster
- Human Impacts of Hazards
- Humanity as an Agent of Natural Disasters
- Hurricane (Typhoon, Cyclone)
- Hurricane Katrina
- Hydrocompaction Subsidence
- Hydrograph, Flood
- Hydrometeorological Hazards
- Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015
- Hypocenter
- Ice and Icebergs
- Ice Storms
- Impact Airblast
- Impact Ejecta
- Impact Fireball
- Impact Firestorms
- Impact Tsunamis
- Impact Winter
- Inclinometers
- Indian Ocean Tsunami, 2004
- Induced Seismicity
- Information and Communication Technology
- Insect Hazards
- Insurance
- Integrated Emergency Management System
- Intensity Scales
- International Strategies for Disaster Reduction (IDNDR and ISDR)
- Internet, World Wide Web and Natural Hazards
- Isoseismal
- Jökulhlaups
- Karst Hazards
- Krakatoa (Krakatau)
- Lahar
- Land Degradation
- Land Subsidence
- Land Use, Urbanization, and Natural Hazards
- Landsat Satellite
- Landslide
- Landslide Dam
- Landslide Impacts
- Landslide Inventory
- Landslide Triggered Tsunami, Displacement Wave
- Landslide Types
- Land-Use Planing
- Lateral Spreading
- Lava
- Levee
- Lightning
- Liquefaction
- Livelihoods and Disasters
- Loess
- Macroseismic Survey
- Magma
- Magnitude Measures
- Marginality
- Marine Hazards
- Mass Media and Natural Disasters
- Mass Movement
- Megacities and Natural Hazards
- Mega-Fires in Greece (2007)
- Mercalli, Giuseppe (1850-1914)
- Meteorite
- Methane Release from Hydrate
- Mining Subsidence Induced Fault Reactivation
- Misconceptions About Natural Disaster
- Mitigation
- Modified Mercalli (MM) Scale
- Monitoring Natural Hazards
- Monsoons
- Montserrat Eruptions
- Mortality and Injury in Natural Disasters
- Mt Pinatubo
- Mud Volcanoes
- Mudflow
- Myths and Misconceptions in Disasters
- Natural Hazard
- Natural Hazards in Developing Countries
- Natural Radioactivity
- Neotectonics
- Nevado del Ruiz Volcano, Colombia 1985
- North Anatolian Fault
- Nuée Ardente
- Overgrazing
- Ozone
- Ozone Loss
- Pacific Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (PTWS)
- Pahoehoe Lava
- Paleoflood Hydrology
- Paleoseismology
- Paraglacial
- Perception of Natural Hazards and Disasters
- Permafrost
- Piezometer
- Piping Hazard
- Planning Measures and Political Aspects
- Plate Tectonics
- Pore-Water Pressure
- Post Disaster Mass Care Needs
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Primary Wave (P-Wave)
- Probable Maximum Flood (PMF)
- Probable Maximum Precipitation (PMP)
- Psychological Impacts of Natural Disasters
- Pyroclastic Flow
- Queensland Floods (2010-2011) and "Tweeting"
- Quick Clay
- Quick Sand
- Radiation Hazards
- Radon Hazards
- Recovery and Reconstruction After Disaster
- Recurrence Interval
- Red Cross and Red Crescent
- Red Tides
- Reflections on Modeling Disaster
- Release Rates
- Religion and Hazards
- Remote Sensing of Natural Hazards and Disasters
- Reservoir, Dams, and Seismicity
- Resilience
- Richter, Charles Francis (1900-1985)
- Rights and Obligations in International Humanitarian Assistance
- Rip Current
- Risk
- Risk Assessment
- Risk Governance
- Risk Perception and Communication
- Rock Avalanche (Sturzstrom)
- Rockfall
- Rogue Wave
- Rotational Seismology
- Sackung
- Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Intensity Scale
- San Andreas Fault
- Santorini, Eruption
- Sea Level Change
- Secondary Wave (S-Wave)
- Sedimentation of Reservoirs
- Seiche
- Seismic Gap
- Seismograph/Seismometer
- Seismology
- Shear
- Shield Volcano
- Sinkhole
- Slide and Slump
- Slope Stability
- Snowstorm and Blizzard
- Social-Ecological Systems
- Sociology of Disaster
- Solar Flares
- Solifluction
- Space Weather
- Storm Surges
- Storms
- Stratovolcanoes
- Structural Damage Caused by Earthquakes
- Structural Mitigation
- Subduction
- Subsidence Induced by Underground Extraction
- Sunspots
- Supernova
- Surge
- Susceptibility
- Tangshan, China (1976 Earthquake)
- Tectonic and Tectono-Seismic Hazards
- Tectonic Tremor
- Thunderstorms
- Tidal Bores
- Tiltmeters
- Time and Space in Disaster
- Tohoku, Japan (2011 Earthquake and Tsunami)
- Torino Scale
- Tornadoes
- Triggered Earthquakes
- Tsunami
- Tsunami Loads on Infrastructure
- Uncertainty
- United Nations Organizations and Natural Disasters
- Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE)
- Unreinforced Masonry Buildings
- Urban Environments and Natural Hazards
- Usoi Landslide and Lake Sarez
- Vaiont Landslide, Italy
- Vesuvius
- Volcanic Ash
- Volcanic Gas
- Volcanoes and Volcanic Eruptions
- Vulnerability
- Warning Systems
- Waterspout
- Wenchuan, China (2008 Earthquake)
- Wildfire
- World Economy, Impact of Disasters
- Worldwide Trends in Natural Disasters
- Zoning.