Coastal and marine hazards, risks, and disasters

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Sea and Ocean Hazards, Risks and Disasters provides a scientific approach to those hazards and disasters related to the Earth's coasts and oceans. This is the first book to integrate scientific, social, and economic issues related to disasters such as hazard identification, risk analysis, and planning, relevant hazard process mechanics, discussions of preparedness, response, and recovery, and the economics of loss and remediation. Throughout the book cases studies are presented of historically …

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Full title :Coastal and marine hazards, risks, and disasters / volume editors, Jean T. Ellis, Douglas J. Sherman.

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Publication Date:2015

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Publisher(s):Elsevier
Place of Publication:Amsterdam, Netherlands
Language:eng
Publication Date:2015

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Description:1 online resource.

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ISBN:9780123965387, 0123965381
oclc:ocn897176794
LC Classification:GB451.2
Dewey Decimal:551.45/7

""Front Cover""; ""Coastal and Marine Hazards, Risks, and Disasters""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Contributors""; ""Editorial Foreword""; ""Chapter 1 -- Perspectives on Coastal and Marine Hazards and Disasters""; ""1.1 INTRODUCTION""; ""1.2 GEOPHYSICAL HAZARDS""; ""1.3 BIOLOGICAL/ECOLOGICAL HAZARDS""; ""1.4 CONCLUSIONS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Chapter 2 -- Tsunami Dynamics, Forecasting, and Mitigation""; ""2.1 INTRODUCTION""; ""2.2 SIGNIFICANT ADVANCES IN TSUNAMI SCIENCE BEFORE THE 2004 BOXING DAY TSUNAMI""; ""2.3 DEVELOPMENTS SINCE THE 2004 BOXING DAY TSUNAMI""; ""2.4 MITIGATION MEASURES""

""5.2 CHENIERS AND SHELLY BEACH RIDGES""""5.3 SAND BEACH RIDGE PLAINS""; ""5.4 SHELL RIDGES""; ""5.5 GRAVEL RIDGES""; ""5.6 PUMICE RIDGES""; ""5.7 SAND SPLAYS""; ""5.8 WASHOVER DEPOSITS""; ""5.9 PREHISTORIC TC INTENSITY""; ""5.10 GAPS IN CHRONOLOGY""; ""5.11 DERIVING ROBUST RETURN PERIODS FROM PALAEOSTORM DEPOSITS""; ""5.12 CONCLUSION""; ""REFERENCES""; ""Chapter 6 -- Storm Surge Warning, Mitigation, and Adaptation""; ""6.1 MITIGATION AND ADAPTATION""; ""6.2 STORM SURGE BARRIERS""; ""6.3 STORM SURGE WARNING""; ""6.4 STORM SURGE DISASTER RISK REDUCTION""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""REFERENCES""

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