UID:
almahu_9947415015202882
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 291 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511807527 (ebook)
Content:
Human activities have had a huge impact on the environment and landscape, through industrialisation and land-use change, leading to climate change, deforestation, desertification, land degradation, and air and water pollution. These impacts are strongly linked to the occurrence of geomorphological hazards, such as floods, landslides, snow avalanches, soil erosion, and others. Geomorphological work includes not only the understanding but the mapping and modelling of Earth's surface processes, many of which directly affect human societies. In addition, geomorphologists are becoming increasingly involved with the dimensions of societal problem solving, through vulnerability analysis, hazard and risk assessment and management. The work of geomorphologists is therefore of prime importance for disaster prevention. An international team of geomorphologists have contributed their expertise to this volume, making this a scientifically rigorous work for a wide audience of geomorphologists and other Earth scientists, including those involved in environmental science, hazard and risk assessment, management and policy.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Regional seismic shaking hazards in mountains /
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Volcanic hazards and risks : a geomorphological perspective /
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Mountain hazards /
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Review and future challenges in snow avalanche risk analysis /
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Landslide hazards /
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Catastrophic landslides and sedimentary budgets /
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The hazardousness of high-magnitude floods /
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Flood hazards : the context of fluvial geomorphology /
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Geomorphology and coastal hazards /
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Weathering hazards /
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Hazards associated with karst /
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Soil erosion /
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Desertification and land degradation in arid and semi-arid regions /
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Dune migration and encroachment /
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GIS for the assessment of risk from geomorphological hazards /
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Hazard assessment for risk analysis and risk management /
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Vulnerability analysis in geomorphic risk assessment /
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Geomorphological hazards and global climate change /
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Geomorphic hazards and sustainable development /
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Geomorphology and disaster prevention /
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Geomorphology and the international agenda : concluding remarks /
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780521769259
Language:
English
Subjects:
Geography
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511807527
URL:
Volltext
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511807527
