Disasters category: 785 books
Landslide Science and Practice
Volume 3: Spatial Analysis and Modelling
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 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...
Landslide Science and Practice
Volume 2: Early Warning, Instrumentation and Monitoring
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 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 second: 1. Landslide Inventory...
Landslide Science and Practice
Volume 4: Global Environmental Change
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 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 fourth: 1. Landslide Inventory...
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...
Dating Torrential Processes on Fans and Cones
Methods and Their Application for Hazard and Risk Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
This book provides a detailed overview on methods used for the dating of past torrential activity on fans and cones and fosters the discussion on the impact of past and potential future climate change on torrential processes. The book has a clear focus on the practical applications of these methods,...
Natural Hazards
State-of-the-Art at the End of the Second Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
This special volume contains a selection of papers that were presented as part of the Seventh International Symposium on Natural and Man-Made Hazards (HAZARDS-98), held in Chania, Crete Island, Greece, during May 1998. The Symposium attracted broad international interest because many cases of natural...
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,...
Geophysical Hazards
Minimizing Risk, Maximizing Awareness
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2010
The International Year of Planet Earth (IYPE) was established as a means of raising worldwide public and political awareness of the vast, though frequently under-used, potential the Earth Sciences possess for improving the quality of life of the peoples of the world and safeguarding Earth’s rich...
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...