Progress of Geo-Disaster Mitigation Technology in Asia

This book includes the recent 10-year achievement of geo-disaster mitigation by leading Asian scientists from Japan, China, Indonesia, Korea, Iran and Far East of Russia. Case studies on recent occurred geo-disasters in Asian region have been presented. The forming mechanics of hazards such as earth...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Wang, Fawu (Editor ), Miyajima, Masakatsu (Editor ), Li, Tonglu (Editor ), SHAN, Wei (Editor ), Fathani, Teuku Faisal (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Edición:1st ed. 2013.
Colección:Environmental Science,
Temas:
Natural disasters.
Environment.
Physical geography.
Natural Hazards.
Environmental Sciences.
Earth System Sciences.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Damage by the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami
  • Geological prerequisites for landslide dams' disaster assessment and mitigation in Central Asia
  • Social benefits of landslide prevention and mitigation in Hong Kong, China
  • Advances of geo-disaster mitigation technologies in Taiwan
  • The mechanisms for initiation and motion of Chinese loess landslides
  • Geo-disaster and its mitigation in Nepal
  • Hybrid socio-technical approach for landslide risk reduction in Indonesia
  • Damage and recovery from the 1999 Chichi Earthquake in Taiwan
  • Key factors influencing the mechanism of rapid and long runout landslides triggered by the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, China
  • Strong ground motion prediction for scenario earthquakes
  • Stability analysis of loess slopes based on reliability concepts
  • Loess deposit and loess landslides on the Chinese loess plateau.

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