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almahu_9948025922502882
Format:
1 online resource (235 p.)
ISBN:
0-12-410548-3
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Assessment of Vulnerability to Natural Hazards covers the vulnerability of human and environmental systems to climate change and eight natural hazards: earthquakes, floods, landslides, avalanches, forest fires, drought, coastal erosion, and heat waves. This book is an important contribution to the field, clarifying terms and investigating the nature of vulnerability to hazards in general and in various specific European contexts. In addition, this book helps improve understanding of vulnerability and gives thorough methodologies for investigating situations in which people an
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Front Cover; Assessment of Vulnerability to Natural Hazards: A European Perspective; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Introduction; Vulnerability: a key determinant of risk and its importance for risk management and sustainability; Chapter 1 - Theoretical and Conceptual Framework for the Assessment of Vulnerability to Natural Hazards and Climate Change in Europe1: The MOVE Framework; 1.1 INTRODUCTION; 1.2 RISK, VULNERABILITY, AND ADAPTATION TO NATURAL HAZARDS; 1.3 MULTIDIMENSIONAL AND HOLISTIC PERSPECTIVE: THE MOVE FRAMEWORK; 1.4 THE APPLICATION: CRITERIA AND INDICATORS
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1.5 CHALLENGES AND OUTLOOKREFERENCES; Chapter 2 - Holistic Evaluation of Seismic Risk in Barcelona; 2.1 INTRODUCTION; 2.2 DESCRIPTION OF THE CITY; 2.3 LOCAL SEISMIC HAZARD; 2.4 METHODOLOGY OF SEISMIC RISK ASSESSMENT; 2.5 HOLISTIC RISK EVALUATION; 2.6 EVALUATION OF THE RISK MANAGEMENT PERFORMANCE; 2.7 CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; Chapter 3 - Spatial and Holistic Assessment of Social, Economic, and Environmental Vulnerability to Floods-Lessons from the Salzach River Basin, Austria; 3.1 INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND; 3.2 ASSESSING VULNERABILITY-FROM CONCEPTS TO MEASURABLE AND MEANINGFUL SPATIAL UNITS
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3.3 INDICATORS FOR MULTIPLE VULNERABILITY DIMENSIONS3.4 RESULTS; 3.5 DISCUSSION; 3.6 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; Chapter 4 - Vulnerability to Earthquakes and Floods of the Healthcare System in Florence, Italy; 4.1 INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND; 4.2 MATERIAL AND METHODS; 4.3 RESULTS; 4.4 CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 5 - Vulnerability Assessment to Heat Waves, Floods, and Earthquakes Using the MOVE Framework: Test Case Cologne, Germany; 5.1 INTRODUCTION; 5.2 NATURAL HAZARDS WITHIN THE STUDY AREA; 5.3 VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT WITHIN COLOGNE: METHODS
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5.4 RESULTS5.5 DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 6 - Vulnerability to Drought and Heatwave in London: Revealing Institutionally Configured Risk; 6.1 CASE STUDY DESCRIPTION; 6.2 HAZARDS; 6.3 VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT METHODS; 6.4 INDICATORS; 6.5 RESULTS AND VALIDATION; 6.6 DISCUSSION; 6.7 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS; REFERENCES; Chapter 7 - Comprehensive Vulnerability Assessment of Forest Fires and Coastal Erosion: Evidences from Case-Study Analysis in Portugal; 7.1 VALIDATION OF THE VULNERABILITY FRAMEWORK: METHODOLOGICAL QUESTIONS; 7.2 HAZARDS CHARACTERIZATION
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7.3 VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT METHODS7.4 INDICATORS DESCRIPTION; 7.5 RESULTS; 7.6 DISCUSSION; 7.7 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS; REFERENCES; Chapter 8 - Vulnerability to Heat Waves, Floods, and Landslides in Mountainous Terrain: Test Cases in South Tyrol; 8.1 INTRODUCTION; 8.2 LANDSLIDES; 8.3 FLOODS; 8.4 HEAT WAVES; 8.5 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS; REFERENCES; Chapter 9 - Conclusion: Assessing Vulnerability in Europe and the World; 9.1 REDEFINING CONCEPTS AND MAKING CONNECTIONS; 9.2 BRIDGING THE HUMAN-PHYSICAL GAP; 9.3 THE COMPONENTS OF VULNERABILITY
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9.4 VALEDICTION OF THE MOVE FRAMEWORK
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-12-410528-9
Language:
English
