Mountain Risk

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Forests and forestry
ISBN : MINN:20000004555559

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Mountain Risk by Anonim Pdf

Author : Hari Krishna Nibanupudi,Rajib Shaw
Publisher : Springer
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9784431552420

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Mountain Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction by Hari Krishna Nibanupudi,Rajib Shaw Pdf

The Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region is highly vulnerable to earthquakes and water-induced disasters. This fragile mountain region is under tremendous stress from climate change and land-use degradation that has accelerated flash floods, river-line floods, erosion, and wet mass movements during the monsoon period and drought in the non-monsoon period. Against the backdrop of intensifying disasters and in the absence of a focused documentation of disaster risk reduction issues in the HKH region, this volume presents a comprehensive body of knowledge. The main purpose and objective of this publication is to connect existing data, research, conceptual work, and practical cases on risk, resilience, and risk reduction from the HKH region under a common analytical umbrella. The result is a contribution to advancing disaster resilience and risk reduction in the HKH region. The book will be of special interest to policy makers, donors, and researchers concerned with the disaster issues in the region.

Author : Ty Gagne
Publisher : Tmc Books LLC
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0996218157

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Where You'll Find Me by Ty Gagne Pdf

On Feb. 15, 2015, Kate Matrosova, an avid mountaineer, set off before sunrise for a traverse of the Northern Presidential Range in New Hampshire's White Mountains. Late the following day, rescuers carried her frozen body out of the mountains. What went wrong? Where You'll Find Me offers possible answers to that question.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Beetles
ISBN : MINN:31951002952282U

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Piedmont Risk by Anonim Pdf

Author : Raju Sarkar,Rajib Shaw,Biswajeet Pradhan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9789811673146

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Impact of Climate Change, Land Use and Land Cover, and Socio-economic Dynamics on Landslides by Raju Sarkar,Rajib Shaw,Biswajeet Pradhan Pdf

This book discusses the impact of climate change, land use and land cover, and socio-economic dynamics on landslides in Asian countries. Scholars recently have brought about a shift in their focus regarding triggering factors for landslides, from rainfall or earthquake to claiming rapid urbanization, extreme population pressure, improper land use planning, illegal hill cutting for settlements and indiscriminate deforestation. This suggests that the occurrence or probabilities of landslides are shaped by both climate-related and non-climate-related anthropogenic factors. Among these issues, land use and land cover change or improper land use planning is one of the key factors. Further climate change shapes the rainfall pattern and intensity in different parts of the world, and consequently rainfall-triggered landslides have increased. These changes cause socio-economic changes. Conversely, socio-economic and lifestyle changes enhance inappropriate land use and climate change. All these changes in land use, climate and socio-economic aspects are dynamics in nature and shape landslide risks in Asian countries, where they are given serious attention by governments, disaster management professionals, researchers and academicians. This book comprises 21 chapters divided into three major sections highlighting the effect of climate change on landslide incidence with the influence on vegetation and socio-economic aspects. The sections address how climate change and extreme events have triggered landslides. The advances in geospatial techniques with the focus on land use and land cover change along with the effect on socio-economic aspects are also explored.

Author : Charles Cardale Babington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Botanists
ISBN : HARVARD:HN4UEF

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Memorials Journal and Botanical Correspondence by Charles Cardale Babington Pdf

Author : Szymon Szewrański,Jan K. Kazak
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783039436514

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Socio-Environmental Vulnerability Assessment for Sustainable Management by Szymon Szewrański,Jan K. Kazak Pdf

This Special Issue explores the cross-disciplinary approaches, methodologies, and applications of socio-environmental vulnerability assessment that can be incorporated into sustainable management. The volume comprises 20 different points of view, which cover environmental protection and development, urban planning, geography, public policymaking, participation processes, and other cross-disciplinary fields. The articles collected in this volume come from all over the world and present the current state of the world’s environmental and social systems at a local, regional, and national level. New approaches and analytical tools for the assessment of environmental and social systems are studied. The practical implementation of sustainable development as well as progressive environmental and development policymaking are discussed. Finally, the authors deliberate about the perspectives of social–environmental systems in a rapidly changing world.

Author : Kyoji Sassa,Philippo Canuti
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540699705

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Landslides - Disaster Risk Reduction by Kyoji Sassa,Philippo Canuti Pdf

This book documents the First World Landslide Forum, which was jointly organized by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL), eight UN organizations (UNESCO, WMO, FAO, UN/ISDR, UNU, UNEP, World Bank, UNDP) and four NGOs (International Council for Science, World Federation of Engineering Organizations, Kyoto Univ. and Japan Landslide Society) in Tokyo in 2008. The material consists of four parts: The Open Forum "Progress of IPL Activities; Four Thematic Lectures in the Plenary Symposium "Global Landslide Risk Reduction"; Six Keynote Lectures in the Plenary session; and the aims and overviews of eighteen parallel sessions (dealing with various aspects necessary for landslide disaster risk reduction such as: observations from space; climate change and slope instability; landslides threatening heritage sites; the economic and social impact of landslides; monitoring, prediction and early warning; and risk-management strategies in urban area, etc.) Thus it enables the reader to benefit from a wide range of research intended to reduce risk due to landslide disasters as presented in the first global multi-disciplinary meeting.

Author : Egan, Paul A.,Price, Martin F.
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789231002250

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Mountain ecosystem services and climate change by Egan, Paul A.,Price, Martin F. Pdf

Author : Claudio Colosio,Aristidis M. Tsatsakis,Stefan Mandic-Rajcevic,Athanasios Alegakis
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-25
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780128125625

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Exposure and Risk Assessment of Pesticide Use in Agriculture by Claudio Colosio,Aristidis M. Tsatsakis,Stefan Mandic-Rajcevic,Athanasios Alegakis Pdf

Exposure and Risk Assessment of Pesticide Use in Agriculture: Approaches, Tools and Advances offers an overview of the different methods available in toxicology for pesticide exposure and risk assessment, ranging from the regulatory field, to in-field research studies. The book provides technical background on each method, describing known and grounded tools, new uses of tools and development prospects. This book is ideal for researchers in pesticide toxicology, exposure toxicology, toxicologic risk assessment, occupational hygiene and medicine, and pesticide toxicology as well as occupational health and industrial hygiene practitioners, regulatory experts of corporate and public bodies, and advanced students. Covers pesticide exposure and risk assessment, ranging from fundamentals to advanced theory Explains methods that are useful for both experts and non-experts Details the use of each method for exposure and risk assessment, also including links to additional resources and further reading

Author : A.P. Dimri,B. Bookhagen,M. Stoffel,T. Yasunari
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030296841

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Himalayan Weather and Climate and their Impact on the Environment by A.P. Dimri,B. Bookhagen,M. Stoffel,T. Yasunari Pdf

This book proposes a unique and comprehensive integrated synthesis of the current understanding of the science of Himalayan dynamics and its manifestations on physical systems and ecosystems at different spatial and temporal scales. In particular, this work covers relevant aspects of weather and climate, paleoclimate, snow, glacier and hydrology, ecology/forestry among other topics associated with the Himalayas. It highlights the role of the Himalayas in defining local to regional to global scale impact on weather and climate. It includes Himalayan impact on defining physical basis of changing glacier systems, permafrost melting/thawing, climate variability, and hydrological balances. As a result, this volume represents an important synthesized overview both for environmental and earth science researchers, and for policy makers and stakeholders interested in the physical and dynamical processes associated with the Himalayan massif.

Author : Arnold P. Lattefer
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 160456184X

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Nuclear Waste Research by Arnold P. Lattefer Pdf

Radioactive wastes are waste types containing radioactive chemical elements that do not have a practical purpose. They are sometimes the products of a nuclear processes, such as nuclear fission. However, other industries not directly connected to the nuclear industry can produce large quantities of radioactive waste. For instance, over the past 20 years it is estimated that just the oil-producing endeavours of the US have accumulated 8 million tons of radioactive wastes. The majority of radioactive waste is "low-level waste", meaning it has low levels of radioactivity per mass or volume. This type of waste often consists of used protective clothing, which is only slightly contaminated but still dangerous in case of radioactive contamination of a human body through ingestion, inhalation, absorption, or injection. The issue of disposal methods for nuclear waste was one of the most pressing current problems the international nuclear industry faced when trying to establish a long term energy production plan, yet there was hope it could be safely solved. In the U.S., the DOE acknowledged much progress in addressing the waste problems of the industry, and successful remediation of some contaminated sites, yet also major uncertainties and sometimes complications and setbacks in handling the issue properly, cost effectively, and in the projected time frame. In other countries with lower ability or will to maintain environmental integrity the issue would be more problematic. This new book presents the latest research in the field.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 727 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780788101915

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Directory of Federal Laboratory and Technology Resources by Anonim Pdf

Describes the individual capabilities of each of 1,900 unique resources in the federal laboratory system, and provides the name and phone number of each contact. Includes government laboratories, research centers, testing facilities, and special technology information centers. Also includes a list of all federal laboratory technology transfer offices. Organized into 72 subject areas. Detailed indices.

Author : Yasmina Bestaoui Sebbane
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-14
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781351339391

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Intelligent Autonomy of UAVs by Yasmina Bestaoui Sebbane Pdf

Intelligent Autonomy of UAVs: Advanced Missions and Future Use provides an approach to the formulation of the fundamental task typical to any mission and provides guidelines of how this task can be solved by different generic robotic problems. As such, this book aims to provide a systems engineering approach to UAV projects, discovering the real problems that need to be resolved independently of the application. After an introduction to the rapidly evolving field of aerial robotics, the book presents topics such as autonomy, mission analysis, human-UAV teams, homogeneous and heterogeneous UAV teams, and finally, UAV-UGV teams. It then covers generic robotic problems such as orienteering and coverage. The book next introduces deployment, patrolling, and foraging, while the last part of the book tackles an important application: aerial search, tracking, and surveillance. This book is meant for both scientists and practitioners. For practitioners, it presents existing solutions that are categorized according to various missions: surveillance and reconnaissance, 3D mapping, urban monitoring, precision agriculture, forestry, disaster assessment and monitoring, security, industrial plant inspection, etc. For scientists, it provides an overview of generic robotic problems such as coverage and orienteering; deployment, patrolling and foraging; search, tracking, and surveillance. The design and analysis of algorithms raise a unique combination of questions from many fields, including robotics, operational research, control theory, and computer science.

Author : Stefano Campus,Secondo Barbero,Stefano Bovo,Ferruccio Forlati
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780203934616

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Evaluation and Prevention of Natural Risks by Stefano Campus,Secondo Barbero,Stefano Bovo,Ferruccio Forlati Pdf

The assessment and prevention of risks inherent to natural phenomena is of topical interest to the scientific community and other authorities dealing with territorial management. Historical analysis carried out in the Piemonte-territory in north-western Italy, focusing on the consequences of hydrogeological risks, reveals that damage is continually increasing. This can partly be explained by the consistent expansion of urbanized areas at the expense of areas that are essential to the natural modelling processes of the region; the damage resulting from hydrogeological instability often being associated with incompatible territorial decisions. This text gives a detailed account of a series of experiences related to activities that ARPA Piemonte has carried out focusing on the cognitive and forecasting aspects related to risk assessment and alerting procedures.