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 the topic while integrating the social and economic issues related to volcanoes and volcanic hazards and disasters. Throughout the book case studies are presented of historically relevant volcanic and se…
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- Full title :Volcanic hazards, risks and disasters / volume editor, Paolo Papale.
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"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 the topic while integrating the social and economic issues related to volcanoes and volcanic hazards and disasters. Throughout the book case studies are presented of historically relevant volcanic and seismic hazards and disasters as well as recent catastrophes, such as Chile's Puyehue volcano eruption in June 2011"--
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- Publication Date:2015
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Elsevier
- Place of Publication:Amsterdam
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2015
The Physical Object
- Description:xxv, 505 pages : : color illustrations, color maps ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780123964533, 0123964539
- oclc:ocn890377795
- LC Classification:QE527.6
- Dewey Decimal:363.34/95
Table of Contents
Introduction -- Global distribution of active volcanoes / Elizabeth Cottrell -- Basaltic lava flow hazard / Andrew J.L. Harris -- Impacts from volanic ash fall / Thomas M. Wilson, Susanna Jenkins, Carol Steward -- Volcanic ash hazards and aviation risk / Marianne Guffanti, Andrew Tupper -- Pyroclastic density current hazards and risk / Augusto Neri, Tomaso Esposti Ongaro, Barry Voight, Christina Widiwijayanti -- Lahars at Cotopaxi and Tungurahua volcaneos, Ecuador: highlights from stratigraphy and observational records and related downstream hazards / Patricia A. Mothes, James W. Vallance -- In situ volcano monitoring: present and future / Gilberto Saccorotti, Masato Iguchi, Alessandro Aiuppa -- Using multiple data sets to populate probabilistic volcanic event trees / Chris G. Newhall, John S. Pallister -- Operational short-term volcanic hazard analysis: methods and perspectives / Jacopo Selva, Warner Marzocchi, Laura Sandri, Antonio Costa -- Human and structural vulnerability to volcanic processes / Giulio Zuccaro, Daniela De Gregorio, Peter Baxter -- Cost-benefit analysis in volcanic risk / Gordon Woo -- Volcanic risks and insurance / Anselm Smolka, Martin Käser -- Extreme volca…
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