Disasters category: 785 books
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Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2015
Modern Technologies for Landslide Investigation and Prediction presents eleven contributed chapters from Chinese and Italian authors, as a follow-up of a bilateral workshop held in Shanghai on September 2013. Chapters are organized in three main parts: ground-based monitoring techniques (photogrammetry,...
by Phil Jones, Deliang Chen, Alexander Walther
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
This Atlas presents records of climatic variability and change in Europe starting before 1901 and focuses especially on trends of extreme temperatures and precipitation. The authors have used software developed within EMULATE (European and North Atlantic daily to MULtidecadal climATE variability)...
by Edward Hull
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
It has not been my object to present in the following pages even an approximately complete description of the volcanic and seismic phenomena of the globe; such an undertaking would involve an amount of labour which few would be bold enough to attempt; nor would it be compatible with the aims of the...
by Robert Mann
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2006
The story is set in England 30 years into the future; but it is an England vastly changed due to global warming. The polar ice caps have melted, causing vast areas of the coast line to be flooded. To compound the problem, temperatures have plummeted creating incredible hardship for all. The story...
Assessing Vulnerability to Global Environmental Change
Making Research Useful for Adaptation Decision Making and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Assessing the vulnerability of human populations to global environmental change, particularly climate change, is now the main imperative of research and international action. However, much of the research into vulnerability is not designed to feed directly into decision making and policy, creating...
Tsunami Events and Lessons Learned
Environmental and Societal Significance
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
This book is a collective effort by world experts, bringing together assorted contributions presented during the Ocean Science Session OS-017, of the AOGS-AGU Joint Assembly held in Singapore in 2012 (the Asia Tsunami and Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami events). The chapters cover assessment, evaluation, ...
Robust Simulation for Mega-Risks
The Path from Single-Solution to Competitive, Multi-Solution Methods for Mega-Risk Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015
This book introduces a new way of analyzing, measuring and thinking about mega-risks, a “paradigm shift” that moves from single-solutions to multiple competitive solutions and strategies. “Robust simulation” is a statistical approach that demonstrates future risk through simulation of a suite...
Advancing Culture of Living with Landslides
Volume 5 Landslides in Different Environments
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
This volume contains peer-reviewed papers from the Fourth World Landslide Forum organized by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), the Global Promotion Committee of the International Programme on Landslides (IPL), University of Ljubljana (UL) and Geological Survey of Slovenia in Ljubljana,...
Engineering Geology for Society and Territory - Volume 2
Landslide Processes
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
This book is one out of 8 IAEG XII Congress volumes, and deals with Landslide processes, including: field data and monitoring techniques, prediction and forecasting of landslide occurrence, regional landslide inventories and dating studies, modeling of slope instabilities and secondary hazards (e.g....
Earthquake-Induced Landslides
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Earthquake-Induced Landslides, Kiryu, Japan, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Seismicity is a major trigger for landslides with often devastating effects. The Japan Landslide Society (JLS) therefore organized a meeting fully dedicated to the research area of earthquake induced landslides. The symposium covers all aspects of earthquake-induced landslides including the phenomena...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
This book presents landslide studies using the geographic information system (GIS), which includes not only the science of GIS and remote sensing, but also technical innovations, such as detailed light detection and ranging profiles, among others. To date most of the research on landslides has been...
Landslide Science and Practice
Volume 5: Complex Environment
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
This book contains peer-reviewed papers from the Second World Landslide Forum, organised by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), that took place in September 2011. The entire material from the conference has been split into seven volumes, this one is the fifth: 1. Landslide Inventory...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
This book presents the global landslide risk preparedness implemented through the International Programme on Landslides (IPL). IPL was initiated by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL) in 2002, and developed to a joint international programme by the IPL Global Promotion Committee (UNESCO,...
Landslide Science and Practice
Volume 7: Social and Economic Impact and Policies
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
This book contains peer-reviewed papers from the Second World Landslide Forum, organised by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), that took place in September 2011. The entire material from the conference has been split into seven volumes, this one is the seventh: 1. Landslide Inventory...