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"Assessment of risk and uncertainty is crucial for natural hazard risk management, facilitating risk communication and informing strategies to successfully mitigate our society's vulnerability to natural disasters. Written by some of the world's leading experts, this book provides a s...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Rougier, Jonathan, 1966- (Editor ), Sparks, R. S. J. (Robert Stephen John), 1949- (Editor ), Hill, Lisa J. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, [2013]
Temas:
Natural disasters.
Risk assessment.
Natural Disasters
Risk Assessment
Catastrophes naturelles.
Évaluation du risque.
natural disasters.
risk assessment.
NATURE > Natural Disasters.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Disasters & Disaster Relief.
Catástrofes > Modelos matemáticos
Evaluación de riesgos
Natural disasters
Risk assessment
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Risk assessment and uncertainty in natural hazards / L.J. Hill, R.S.J. Sparks and J.C. Rougier
  • Quantifying hazard losses / J.C. Rougier
  • Model and data limitations : the sources and implications of epistemic uncertainty / J.C. Rougier and K.J. Beven
  • Quantifying scientific uncertainty from expert judgement elicitation / W.P. Aspinall and R.M. Cooke
  • Risk and uncertainty in hydrometeorological hazards / T.L. Edwards and P.G. Challenor
  • Hydrometeorological hazards under future climate change / T.L. Edwards
  • Flood risk and uncertainty / J. Freer, K.J. Beven, J. Neal, G. Schumann, J. Hall and P. Bates
  • Scientific uncertainties : a perspective from probabilistic seismic hazard assessments for low-seismicity areas / W.P. Aspinall
  • Landslide and avalanche hazards / T.K. Hincks, W.P. Aspinall, R.S.J. Sparks, E.A. Holcombe and M. Kern
  • Tsunami hazard and risk / T.K. Hincks, R.S.J. Sparks and W.P. Aspinall
  • Risk and uncertainty assessment of volcanic hazards / R.S.J. Sparks, W.P. Aspinall, H.S. Crosweller and T.K. Hincks
  • Risk assessment and management of wildfires / T.K. Hincks, B.D. Malamud, R.S.J. Sparks, M.J. Wooster and T.J. Lynham
  • Catastrophic impacts of natural hazards on technological facilities and infrastructure / R.S.J. Sparks, W.P. Aspinall, N.A. Chapman, B.E. Hill, D.J. Kerridge, J. Pooley and C.A. Taylor
  • Statistical aspects of risk characterisation in ecotoxicology / G.L. Hickey and A. Hart
  • Social science perspectives on natural hazards risk and uncertainty / S.E. Cornell and M.S. Jackson
  • Natural hazards and risk: the human perspective / H.S. Crosweller and J. Wilmshurst.

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