Mountain Risks: From Prediction to Management and Governance

This book offers a cross disciplinary treatment of the rapidly growing field of integrated approaches in risk assessment in mountainous areas. All major aspects related to hazard and risk assessment, risk management, and governance are illustrated with a wide range of case studies. The first part of...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Van Asch, Theo (Editor ), Corominas, Jordi (Editor ), Greiving, Stefan (Editor ), Malet, Jean-Philippe (Editor ), Sterlacchini, Simone (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edición:1st ed. 2014.
Colección:Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research, 34
Temas:
Natural disasters.
Mineralogy.
Environmental management.
Computer networks .
Geographic information systems.
Security systems.
Natural Hazards.
Environmental Management.
Computer Communication Networks.
Geographical Information System.
Security Science and Technology.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction: The components of risk governance
  • Part I : New techniques for assessing mass movement hazards
  • 2. Innovative techniques for the detection and characterization of the kinematics of slow-moving landslides
  • 3. Innovative techniques for the characterization of the morphology, geometry and hydrological features of slow-moving landslides
  • 4. Techniques for the modelling of the process systems in slow and fast-moving landslides
  • Part II: Methodologies to assess the impact of the natural hazards on the society in terms of risks
  • 5. Methods for debris flow hazard and risk assessment
  • 6. Advances in methodologies for rockfall hazard and risk assessments
  • 7. Medium-scale multi-hazard risk assessment of gravitational processes
  • 8. Methods for the characterization of the vulnerability of elements at risk
  • 9. The importance of the lessons learnt from past disasters for risk assessment
  • Part III: The response of the Society towards the problems of hazard and risk
  • 10. Disaster mitigation by spatial planning
  • 11. Disaster mitigation by corrective and protection measures
  • 12. The relevance of legal aspects, risk cultures and insurance possibilities for risk management
  • 13. The relevance of Early-Warning Systems and evacuation plans for risk management
  • 14. Risk assessment: Establishing practical thresholds for acceptable and tolerable risks
  • 15.  The use of geo-information and modern visualization tools for risk communication
  • Index.

Ejemplares similares