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Volcanic Debris Avalanches: From Collapse to Hazard

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This book presents an overview of volcanic debris avalanche deposits, which are produced by partial volcanic edifice collapse, a catastrophic natural phenomenon. It has been 40 years since the volcanic debris avalanche associated with the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, and o…

Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk: Volume 2 From Mapping to Hazard and Risk Zonation

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This book is a part of ICL new book series "ICL Contribution to Landslide Disaster Risk Reduction" founded in 2019. Peer-reviewed papers submitted to the Fifth World Landslide Forum were published in six volumes of this book series. This book contains the followings: • Keynotes …

Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk: Volume 4 Testing, Modeling and Risk Assessment

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This book is a part of ICL new book series "ICL Contribution to Landslide Disaster Risk Reduction" founded in 2019. Peer-reviewed papers submitted to the Fifth World Landslide Forum were published in six volumes of this book series. This book contains the followings: • Five keyn…

SeaCities: Urban Tactics for Sea-Level Rise

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This book presents and discusses a strategy which includes four approaches to dealing with the risk of sea-level rise and other water hazards. It also offers opportunities for cities to explore urban extensions such as marine estates, aquatic food production systems, new sea rel…

Precipitation modeling and quantitative analysis

by Gao, Shouting, Li, Xiaofan, Ph. D.

fromSpringer atmospheric sciences

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The book examines surface rainfall processes through cloud-resolving modeling and quantitative analysis of surface rainfall budget and summarizes modeling and analysis results in recent seven years. The book shows validation of precipitation modeling against observations and der…

Natural hazard mitigation policy: implementation, organizational choice, and contex…

by Arendt, Lucy A., Alesch, Daniel J., Petak, William J.

fromEnvironmental hazards

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"The negative consequences of natural hazard events are staggering and growing. Governments are acting to increase community resilience, reduce losses, and facilitate recovery, but these actions do not always yield anticipated consequences. This book is a compelling interdiscipl…

Overheated: the human cost of climate change

by Guzman, Andrew T.

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In Overheated, Guzman takes climate change out of the realm of scientific abstraction to explore its real-world consequences. He writes not as a scientist, but as an authority on international law and economics. He takes as his starting point a fairly optimistic outcome in the…

Modern science and the capriciousness of nature

by Rogers, Karl

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Natural disasters remind us that human existence is fragile and vulnerable to forces beyond our control. The capriciousness of Nature is something that we often find very frightening and dreadful. This book presents a critical analysis of the way that modern science and technolo…

Natural processes and human impacts: interactions between humanity and the environment

by Govorushko, S. M., (Sergeĭ Mikhaĭlovich)

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This highly topical book comes at a time when the two-way relationship between humankind and the environment is moving inexorably to the top of the agenda. It covers both sides of this delicate balancing act, explaining how various natural processes influence humanity, including…

Active tectonics of the Hellenic subduction zone

by Shaw, Beth

fromSpringer theses

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This thesis is remarkable for the wide range of the techniques and observations used and for its insights, which cross several disciplines. It begins by solving a famous puzzle of the ancient world, which is what was responsible for the tsunami that destroyed settlements in the …

Disaster and development

by Collins, Andrew E.

fromRoutledge perspectives on development

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This book provides analyses of disasters and development, addressing planning and response activities that accompany this field. Social, economic and environmental hazards, vulnerabilities and risks are examined.

Critical events: an anthropological perspective on contemporary In…

by Das, Veena

fromOxford paperbacks

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This book identifies certain critical moments in the history of contemporary India. These events concern Partition, sati, minority rights, the Bhopal industrial disaster, the nature of the Indian state, and various socio-legal issues. Veena Das redescribes these events and their…

Cultures of disaster: society and natural hazards in the Philippines

by Bankoff, Greg

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" ... Traces the history of natural hazards in the Philippines from the records kept by the Spanish colonizers to the "Calamitous Nineties," and assesses the effectiveness of the relief mechanisms that have evolved to cope with these occurrences. He also examines the correlation…