Extreme natural hazards, disaster ri...
Ismail-Zadeh, Alik.

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  • Extreme natural hazards, disaster risks and societal implications
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    正題名/作者: Extreme natural hazards, disaster risks and societal implications/ edited by Alik Ismail-Zadeh ... [et al.].
    其他題名: Extreme Natural Hazards, Disaster Risks & Societal Implications
    其他作者: Ismail-Zadeh, Alik.
    出版者: Cambridge :Cambridge University Press, : 2014.,
    面頁冊數: xi, 402 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
    內容註: Part I. Introduction: 1. Extreme natural hazards and societal implications -- the 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 Rodri;guez 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 / Salvano Briceno; 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 Low, Thomas Mahl and Sibel Yildirim.
    標題: Natural disasters. -
    電子資源: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139523905
    ISBN: 9781139523905
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