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Extreme natural hazards, disaster risks and societal implications /
"This book presents a unique, interdisciplinary approach to disaster risk research, combining cutting-edge natural science and social science methodologies. Bringing together leading scientists, policy makers and practitioners from around the world, it presents the risks of global hazards such...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Special publications of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics series ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of contributors
- Part I. Introduction. 1. Extreme natural hazards and societal implications : ENHANS project / Alik Ismail-Zadeh ; 2. The grand challenges of integrated research on disaster risk / Gordon McBean
- Part II. Extreme hazards and disaster risks. 3. Extreme volcanism: disaster risks and societal implications / Amy Donovan and Clive Oppenheimer ; 4. Extreme seismic events: from basic science to disaster risk mitigation / Alik Ismail-Zadeh ; 5. The spatial-temporal dimensions of landslide disasters / Irasema Alctara-Ayala ; 6. Global climate model and projected hydro-meteorological extremes in the future / Akio Kitoh ; 7. Physically-based hurricane risk analysis / Ning Lin, Kerry Emanuel and Erik Vanmarcke ; 8. Satellite-based remote sensing estimation of precipitation for early warning systems / Soroosh Sorooshian, Phu Nguyen, Scott Sellars, Dan Braithwaite, Amir AghaKouchak and Kuolin Hsu ; 9. Predicting and mitigating socio-economic impacts of extreme space weather: benefits of improved forecasts / Daniel N. Baker, Jamie M. Jackson and Lauren K. Thompson ; 10. Predictability of extreme events in a branching diffusion model / Andrei Gabrielov, Vladimir Keilis-Borok, Sayaka Olsen and Ilya Zaliapin
- Part III. Case studies: Latin America and the Caribbean Region. 11. Earthquakes, tsunamis, and the related vulnerability in South America and the Caribbean : an overview / Omar J. Perez, Carlos Rodriguez and Jose L. Alonso ; 12. Magnetic studies of active volcanoes in Mexico: implications for volcanic hazards and volcano monitoring / Jaime Urrutia-Fucugauchi
- Part IV. Case studies: Africa. 13. Volcanism in Africa: geological perspectives, hazards and societal implications / Nils Lenhardt and Clive Oppenheimer ; 14. Recent volcanic eruptions in the Afar rift, north-eastern Africa, and implications for volcanic risk management in the region / Gezahegn Yirgu, David J. Ferguson, Talfan D. Barnie and Clive Oppenheimer ; 15. Large recorded earthquakes in Sub-Saharan Africa / Vunganai Midzi and Brassnavy Manzunzu ; 16. Tsunami impact on the African continent: historical cases and hazard evaluation / Vyacheslav K. Gusiakov ; 17. Advancing disaster risk governance in Madagascar: the role of higher education institutions / Mahefasoa T. Randrianalijaona and Ailsa Holloway
- Part V. Case studies: Middle East. 18. Natural hazards in Saudi Arabia / Abdulaziz M. Al-Bassam, Faisal K. Zaidi and Mohammad T. Hussein ; 19. Large earthquakes and tsunamis in the Mediterranean region and its connected seas / Gerassimos A. Papadopoulos and Antonia Papageorgiou ; 20. Earthquake risk and risk reduction capacity building in Iran / Mohsen Ghafory-Ashtiany
- Part VI. Case studies: Asia and the Pacific Region. 21. The Chao Phraya floods 2011 / Sucharit Koontanakulvong ; 22. Environmental risk management in Australia: natural hazards / Tom Beer ; 23. The 2008 Wenchuan, China, earthquake / Zhongliang Wu and Tengfei Ma ; 24. The 2011 Tohoku, Japan, earthquake and tsunami / Kenji Satake ; 25. India's tsunami warning system / T. Srinivasa Kumar, Shailesh Nayak and Harsh K. Gupta
- Part VII. Disaster risks and societal implications. 26. The International Strategy for Disaster Reduction and the Hyogo Framework for Action (2005-15): essential tools for meeting the challenges of extreme events / Sálvano Briceño ; 27. Disaster policy and climate change: how much more of the same? / Stephen Dovers and John Handmer ; 28. Vulnerability, impacts and adaptation to sea level related hazards taking an ecosystem based approach / Keith Alverson ; 29. Extreme geohazards: risk management from a (re)insurance perspective / Anselm Smolka ; 30. Hitting the poor: public-private partnership as an option. Impact of natural catastrophes on economies at various stages of development / Angelika Wirtz, Petra Löw, Thomas Mahl and Sibel Yildirim
- Index.