Geomorphology And Natural Hazards

Author : Timothy R. Davies,Oliver Korup,John J. Clague
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781119990314

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Geomorphology and Natural Hazards by Timothy R. Davies,Oliver Korup,John J. Clague Pdf

Natural disasters are occasional intense events that disturb Earth's surface, but their impact can be felt long after. Hazard events such as earthquakes, volcanos, drought, and storms can trigger a catastrophic reshaping of the landscape through the erosion, transport, and deposition of different kinds of materials. Geomorphology and Natural Hazards: Understanding Landscape Change for Disaster Mitigation is a graduate level textbook that explores the natural hazards resulting from landscape change and shows how an Earth science perspective can inform hazard mitigation and disaster impact reduction. Volume highlights include: Definitions of hazards, risks, and disasters Impact of different natural hazards on Earth surface processes Geomorphologic insights for hazard assessment and risk mitigation Models for predicting natural hazards How human activities have altered 'natural' hazards Complementarity of geomorphology and engineering to manage threats

Author : Timothy R. Davies,Oliver Korup,John J. Clague
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781118648605

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Geomorphology and Natural Hazards by Timothy R. Davies,Oliver Korup,John J. Clague Pdf

Natural disasters are occasional intense events that disturb Earth's surface, but their impact can be felt long after. Hazard events such as earthquakes, volcanos, drought, and storms can trigger a catastrophic reshaping of the landscape through the erosion, transport, and deposition of different kinds of materials. Geomorphology and Natural Hazards: Understanding Landscape Change for Disaster Mitigation is a graduate level textbook that explores the natural hazards resulting from landscape change and shows how an Earth science perspective can inform hazard mitigation and disaster impact reduction. Volume highlights include: Definitions of hazards, risks, and disasters Impact of different natural hazards on Earth surface processes Geomorphologic insights for hazard assessment and risk mitigation Models for predicting natural hazards How human activities have altered 'natural' hazards Complementarity of geomorphology and engineering to manage threats

Author : Timothy R. Davies,Oliver Korup,John J. Clague
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781118648612

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Geomorphology and Natural Hazards by Timothy R. Davies,Oliver Korup,John J. Clague Pdf

Natural disasters are occasional intense events that disturb Earth's surface, but their impact can be felt long after. Hazard events such as earthquakes, volcanos, drought, and storms can trigger a catastrophic reshaping of the landscape through the erosion, transport, and deposition of different kinds of materials. Geomorphology and Natural Hazards: Understanding Landscape Change for Disaster Mitigation is a graduate level textbook that explores the natural hazards resulting from landscape change and shows how an Earth science perspective can inform hazard mitigation and disaster impact reduction. Volume highlights include: Definitions of hazards, risks, and disasters Impact of different natural hazards on Earth surface processes Geomorphologic insights for hazard assessment and risk mitigation Models for predicting natural hazards How human activities have altered 'natural' hazards Complementarity of geomorphology and engineering to manage threats

Author : M. Morisawa
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781483290546

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Geomorphology and Natural Hazards by M. Morisawa Pdf

The theme of this proceedings volume is the latest research on geomorphic characteristics and processes associated with natural hazards. Presentations cover a gamut of types of disasters throughout the world, describing research and applications of studies in the U.S. and other countries. The book begins with a collection of papers giving a basic background and philosophy of approaching an understanding of natural disasters. These are followed by papers on natural hazards in coastal areas, mountainous regions, landslides, flooding and the detrimental effects of permafrost. The book should prove valuable in gaining an insight of natural hazards and their geomorphic relations, which is imperative for prudent environmental planning in coping with disasters.

Author : Irasema Alcántara,Andrew S. Goudie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521769259

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Geomorphological Hazards and Disaster Prevention by Irasema Alcántara,Andrew S. Goudie Pdf

A state-of-the-art assessment of how geomorphology contributes to the comprehension, mapping and modelling of hazardous Earth surface processes.

Author : Paul A. Gares,Douglas J. Sherman,Karl F. Nordstrom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:503351297

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Geomorphology and Natural Hazards by Paul A. Gares,Douglas J. Sherman,Karl F. Nordstrom Pdf

Author : Edward A. Keller,Duane E. DeVecchio
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1797 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781315508672

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Natural Hazards by Edward A. Keller,Duane E. DeVecchio Pdf

Natural Hazards: Earth Processes as Hazards, Disasters and Catastrophes, Fourth Edition, is an introductory-level survey intended for university and college courses that are concerned with earth processes that have direct, and often sudden and violent, impacts on human society. The text integrates principles of geology, hydrology, meteorology, climatology, oceanography, soil science, ecology and solar system astronomy. The book is designed for a course in natural hazards for non-science majors, and a primary goal of the text is to assist instructors in guiding students who may have little background in science to understand physical earth processes as natural hazards and their consequences to society. Natural Hazards uses historical to recent examples of hazards and disasters to explore how and why they happen and what we can do to limit their effects. The text's up-to-date coverage of recent disasters brings a fresh perspective to the material. The Fourth Edition continues our new active learning approach that includes reinforcement of learning objective with a fully updated visual program and pedagogical tools that highlight fundamental concepts of the text. This program will provide an interactive and engaging learning experience for your students. Here's how: Provide a balanced approach to the study of natural hazards: Focus on the basic earth science of hazards as well as roles of human processes and effects on our planet in a broader, more balanced approach to the study of natural hazards. Enhance understanding and comprehension of natural hazards: Newly revised stories and case studies give students a behind the scenes glimpse into how hazards are evaluated from a scientific and human perspective; the stories of real people who survive natural hazards, and the lives and research of professionals who have contributed significantly to the research of hazardous events. Strong pedagogical tools reinforce the text's core features: Chapter structure and design organizes the material into three major sections to help students learn, digest, and review learning objectives.

Author : M. Oya
Publisher : Springer
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401009614

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Applied Geomorphology for Mitigation of Natural Hazards by M. Oya Pdf

There are many natural hazards such as floods, landslides, volcanoes and earthquakes in the Asia-Pacific Region. Nevertheless, there are few studies of such natural hazards in this region and knowledge about their mitigation is of the utmost importance. This book documents the use of geomorphological maps showing the state of flooding; these maps allow predictions to be made. The author has compiled geomorphological maps and documentation of their validation, and the maps allow not only estimation of flooding, but also prediction of soil liquefaction caused by earthquakes. Audience: The results of the discussions in this book apply not only to geographers, consultants, engineers and policy makers in Japan and Southeast Asian countries, but also to those from Europe, North America, and Africa.

Author : Markus Stoffel,Michelle Bollschweiler,David R. Butler,Brian H. Luckman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9789048187362

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Tree Rings and Natural Hazards by Markus Stoffel,Michelle Bollschweiler,David R. Butler,Brian H. Luckman Pdf

Dendrogeomorphology Beginnings and Futures: A Personal Reminiscence My early forays into dendrogeomorphology occurred long before I even knew what that word meant. I was working as a young geoscientist in the 1960s and early 1970s on a problem with slope movements and deformed vegetation. At the same time, unknown to me, Jouko Alestalo in Finland was doing something similar. Both of us had seen that trees which produced annual growth rings were reacting to g- morphic processes resulting in changes in their internal and external growth p- terns. Dendroclimatology was an already well established field, but the reactions of trees to other environmental processes were far less well understood in the 1960s. It was Alestalo (1971) who first used the term, dendrogeomorphology. In the early 1970s, I could see that active slope-movement processes were affecting the growth of trees in diverse ways at certain localities. I wanted to learn more about those processes and try to extract a long-term chronology of movement from the highly diverse ring patterns.

Author : Edgardo Latrubesse
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0080932185

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Natural Hazards and Human-Exacerbated Disasters in Latin America by Edgardo Latrubesse Pdf

The main objective of the book is to offer a vision of the dynamics of the main disasters in South America, describing their mechanisms and consequences on South American societies. The chapters are written by selected specialists of each country. Human-induced disasters are also included, such as desertification in Patagonia and soil erosion in Brazil. The receding of South-American glaciers as a response to recent climatic trends and sea-level scenarios are discussed. The approach is broad in analyzing causes and consequences and includes social and economic costs, discussing environmental and planning problems, but always describing the geomorphologic/geologic involved processes with a good scientific substantiation. This is important to differentiate the book from others of a more 'social' impact that discuss risks and disasters with emphases mainly on economy and simple impacts. Actual theme, interesting for a variety of professionals Fills in the scarcity of specialized literature in geosciences from South America The first book in the market exclusively devoted to geomorphology of disasters in South America

Author : C. Embleton,C. Embleton-Hamann
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1997-04-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 0080532489

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Geomorphological Hazards of Europe by C. Embleton,C. Embleton-Hamann Pdf

The Geomorphological Hazards of Europe contains an excellent balance of authoritative statements on the range and causes of natural hazards in Europe. Written in a clear and unpretentious style, it removes myths and concentrates on the basic facts. The book looks at the known distributions, processes and the underlying principles and focuses on the need for a true understanding of the scientific details so that a real contribution to hazard management can be made. A comprehensive treatment of scientific and management issues of hazards in Europe caused by natural or sometimes human induced earth surface processes are covered including floods, landslides, avalanches, glacier-, coastal-, karstic-, and volcanic hazards, soil erosion and subsidence. Leading researchers in the field of natural hazards and their mitigation have contributed to this nation by nation account covering 20 European countries. The individual chapters deal with the distribution of natural hazards within specific countries (quite often the first synthesis of the information available) and • provide a review of current research in the field • discuss the economic, engineering and policy responses in national hazard management • are complemented by an extensive bibliography. The volume is well illustrated with 207 figures of which 66 are photos and has an extensive general index and a complete index of place names. It is a major European contribution to the International Decade for Natural Disasters Reduction. The book will appeal to practitioners, managers, academicians, researchers, as well as graduate students in geomorphlogy, natural hazards research and environmental management.

Author : Olav Slaymaker
Publisher : Chichester ; Toronto : Wiley
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1996-06-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : UOM:39015043793317

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Geomorphic Hazards by Olav Slaymaker Pdf

This book examines geomorphic hazards, land form changes that adversely affect the geomorphic stability of a site or produces adverse socioeconomic impacts. These hazards include floods, landslides, seismicity, soil erosion and volcanic eruption.

Author : Raju Sarkar,Sunil Saha,Basanta Raj Adhikari,Rajib Shaw
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9819977061

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Geomorphic Risk Reduction Using Geospatial Methods and Tools by Raju Sarkar,Sunil Saha,Basanta Raj Adhikari,Rajib Shaw Pdf

This book explores the use of advanced geospatial techniques in geomorphic hazards modelling and risk reduction. It also compares the accuracy of traditional statistical methods and advanced machine learning methods and addresses the different ways to reduce the impact of geomorphic hazards. In recent years with the development of human infrastructures, geomorphic hazards are gradually increasing, which include landslides, flood and soil erosion, among others. They cause huge loss of human property and lives. Especially in mountainous, coastal, arid and semi-arid regions, these natural hazards are the main barriers for economic development. Furthermore, human pressure and specific human actions such as deforestation, inappropriate land use and farming have increased the danger of natural disasters and degraded the natural environment, making it more difficult for environmental planners and policymakers to develop appropriate long-term sustainability plans. The most challenging task is to develop a sophisticated approach for continuous inspection and resolution of environmental problems for researchers and scientists. However, in the past several decades, geospatial technology has undergone dramatic advances, opening up new opportunities for handling environmental challenges in a more comprehensive manner. With the help of geographic information system (GIS) tools, high and moderate resolution remote sensing information, such as visible imaging, synthetic aperture radar, global navigation satellite systems, light detection and ranging, Quickbird, Worldview 3, LiDAR, SPOT 5, Google Earth Engine and others deliver state-of-the-art investigations in the identification of multiple natural hazards. For a thorough examination, advanced computer approaches focusing on cutting-edge data processing, machine learning and deep learning may be employed. To detect and manage various geomorphic hazards and their impact, several models with a specific emphasis on natural resources and the environment may be created.

Author : Thomas Glade,Andrés Díez Herrero
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:500520547

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Natural Hazards in Geomorphology by Thomas Glade,Andrés Díez Herrero Pdf

Author : Alik Ismail-Zadeh,Jaime Urrutia Fucugauchi,Andrzej Kijko,Kuniyoshi Takeuchi,Ilya Zaliapin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781107033863

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Extreme Natural Hazards, Disaster Risks and Societal Implications by Alik Ismail-Zadeh,Jaime Urrutia Fucugauchi,Andrzej Kijko,Kuniyoshi Takeuchi,Ilya Zaliapin Pdf

A unique interdisciplinary approach to disaster risk research, including global hazards and case-studies, for researchers, graduate students and professionals.