Natural Disasters category: 785 books
Landslide Dynamics: ISDR-ICL Landslide Interactive Teaching Tools
Volume 2: Testing, Risk Management and Country Practices
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
This interactive book presents comprehensive information on the fundamentals of landslide types and dynamics, while also providing a set of PPT, PDF, and text tools for education and capacity development. It is the second part of a two-volume work created as the core activity of the Sendai Partnerships,...
Landslide Dynamics: ISDR-ICL Landslide Interactive Teaching Tools
Volume 1: Fundamentals, Mapping and Monitoring
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2017
This interactive book presents comprehensive information on the fundamentals of landslide types and dynamics, while also providing a set of PPT, PDF, and text tools for education and capacity development. As the core activity of the Sendai Partnerships, the International Consortium of Landslides has...
Landslide Analysis and Early Warning Systems
Local and Regional Case Study in the Swabian Alb, Germany
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2012
Recent landslide events demonstrate the need to improve landslide forecasting and early warning capabilities in order to reduce related risks and protect human lives. In this thesis, local and regional investigations were carried out to analyse landslide characteristics in the Swabian Alb region,...
by Diandong Ren
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
This volume discusses the general physics of debris flows and various approaches to modeling - including the SEGMENT-Landslide approach – as well as the pros and cons of these approaches and how other approaches are sub-sets of the SEGMENT-Landslide approach. In addition, this volume will systematically...
Geomorphological impacts of extreme weather
Case studies from central and eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
This book presents new research on the geomorphological impacts of extreme precipitation events. It focuses on the extreme summer floods, which affected Central and Eastern Europe in 2010. Case studies on their consequences, including inundations, urban flooding, soil erosion, river bank retreat,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
This book presents methods and results that cover and extend beyond the state-of-the-art in structural dynamics and earthquake engineering. Most of the chapters are based on the keynote lectures at the International Conference in Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics (ICESD), held in Reykjavik,...
Global and Regional Geodynamics
Symposium No. 101 Edinburgh, Scotland, August 3–5, 1989
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Current studies of recent crustal movement are presented using space and terrestrial geodetic methods. Results of the studies, as well as methodological questions related to monitoring, are discussed. Papers are grouped within the following section headings: - Global Plate Motions Instrumentation...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
This book discusses in detail the science and morphology of powerful hurricane detection systems. It broadly addresses new approaches to monitoring hazards using freely available images from the European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Sentinel-1 SAR satellite and benchmarks a new interdisciplinary field...
Advancing Culture of Living with Landslides
Volume 2 Advances in Landslide Science
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 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,...
by Lynn Bonne
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
If you live in a seismic area, you may think that your home is the safest place to be in case of an earthquake, but is it? In fact, you need to make sure that your home is fully earthquake proof, so many things you have in your home can turn into your worst enemies when the earth shakes.
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Earthquake Data in Engineering Seismology
Predictive Models, Data Management and Networks
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2011
This book addresses current activities in strong-motion networks around the globe, covering issues related to designing, maintaining and disseminating information from these arrays. The book is divided into three principal sections. The first section includes recent developments in regional...
Seismic Hazard and Risk Assessment
Updated Overview with Emphasis on Romania
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
This book contains the best contributions presented during the 6th National Conference on Earthquake Engineering and the 2nd National Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology - 6CNIS & 2CNISS, that took place on June 14-17, 2017 in Bucharest - Romania, at the Romanian Academy and Technical...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
This book points out why organisational or governance aspects are essential for implementing a broad and integrated flood risk management approach. It provides key conclusions on resilient, efficient and legitimate flood risk governance arrangements in vulnerable urban areas in Europe. These are translated...
by Gypsy Wulff
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Polar bears are supposed to live where there is plenty of ice and snow. Why would one be living in a fridge in the city?