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Volcanic hazards, risks and disasters /

"Volcanic Hazards, Risks, and Disasters provides you with the latest scientific developments in volcano and volcanic research, including causality, impacts, preparedness, risk analysis, planning, response, recovery, and the economics of loss and remediation. It takes a geoscientific approach to...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Papale, Paolo (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2014.
Colección:Hazards and disasters series (Elsevier)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • FrontCover; Volcanic Hazards, Risks, and Disasters; Copyright; Contents; Co-editors; Contributors; EditorialForeword; Introduction; Chapter 1
  • Global Distribution of Active Volcanoes; 1.4 PATTERNS IN VOLCANO-RELATED FATALITIES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 2.2 WHAT MAKES A LAVA FLOW HAZARDOUS?; 9.2 THE BRADYSEISMIC CRISES AT CAMPI FLEGREI IN 1982-1984; REFERENCES; 3.6 MOVING FORWARD; 5.2 PDC GENERATION AND DYNAMICS; 6.2 TERMINOLOGY AND FUNDAMENTALS OF LAHAR GENERATION; 15.2 THE AD 1783-1784 LAKI ERUPTION; 2.5 CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; 8.2 PROBABILISTIC VERSUS DETERMINISTIC FORECASTS.
  • 8.9 applications of probabilistic volcanic event trees8.10 public presentation of probabilistic event trees?; 8.11 future improvements; references; 9.5 operational short-term pvha: results; 10.2 human vulnerability and buildings; 11.2 the roots of value-based decision-making; 12.5 managing the insurance risk; 8.8 applications of the multiple data sets method, by vdap and others; 12.8 local events-cities at risk; 13.2 volcanic hazard assessments for mc; 17.2 state of the art of the european volcanological ris; references; 14.2 characteristics of fuji volcano; references; 15.5 discussion.
  • 16.2 SUPERSIZED ERUPTIONS18.2 TARGET VOLCANOES FOR MONITORING; REFERENCES; REFERENCES; Index.