Geomorphological Hazards and Disaster Prevention / edited by Irasema Alcántara-Ayala, Andrew S. Goudie.
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 h...
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| 520 | |a 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. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; 1 Introduction; References; Part I Processes; 2 Regional seismic shaking hazards in mountains; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Lichenometry site characteristics; 2.3 Regional seismic shaking; 2.4 Conclusions; References; 3 Volcanic hazards and risks:a geomorphological perspective; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Direct volcanic hazards around active volcanoes; 3.2.1 Pyroclastic density currents: flows, surges and laterally directed blasts; 3.2.2 Sector collapses and debris avalanches; 3.2.3 Tephra falls and ballistic projectiles; 3.2.4 Lava flows. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 3.2.5 Volcanic gases and phreatic explosions3.2.6 Large-cale, caldera-and ignimbriteorming explosive eruptions; 3.3 Indirect volcanic hazards and geomorphic impact; 3.3.1 Volcanogenic landslides and tsunamis; 3.3.2 Geomorphic hazards from volcanogenic sediment-water flows; 3.3.3 Ash in the atmosphere; 3.3.4 Postruption famine and disease; 3.4 Postruption geomorphic impacts and responses; 3.4.1 Hazardous geomorphic response to small eruptions; 3.4.2 Severe geomorphic hazards in catchments disturbed by large eruptions; 3.4.3 Delayed geomorphic hazards in caldera and ignimbrite contexts. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 3.5 Long-term geomorphic hazards around inactive volcanoes3.6 Methods and goals of volcano hazard and risk assessment; 3.6.1 Coping with volcano hazards; 3.6.2 The role of geomorphology in hazard and risk zone maps and risk assessment; 3.6.3 A quantitative analysis of vulnerability; 3.7 Concluding remarks and perspectives; Acknowledgments; References; 4 Mountain hazards; 4.1 Introduction to mountain geomorphic hazards; 4.1.1 Mountain geomorphic hazards defined; 4.1.2 The major drivers of change and 'key' vulnerability; 4.1.3 The scale question; 4.2 Site scale; 4.2.1 Relief. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 4.2.2 Hydroclimate and runoff4.2.3 Human activity; 4.2.4 Site scale hazards; 4.3 Drainage basin scale; 4.3.1 The sediment cascade in mountains; 4.3.2 Basin area; 4.3.3 Drainage density; 4.3.4 The ruggedness number; 4.3.5 Climate change; 4.3.6 Human activity; 4.3.7 Drainage basin scale hazards; 4.4 Global scale; 4.4.1 Relief; 4.4.2 Disturbance regimes; 4.4.3 A conditionally unstable landscape; 4.4.4 Human activity, population and land use; 4.4.5 A typology of mountain systems sensitive to relief, hydroclimate and land use changes; Polar mountains (population density <0.1/km²). | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Low population density temperate mountains (population density 0.1-25/km²)High population density temperate mountains (population density 25-75/km²); Tropical mountains (population density 50-100/km²); 4.4.6 Global scale hazards; 4.5 Conclusion in light of accelerating environmental change; 4.6 Conclusions; References; 5 Review and future challenges in snow avalanche risk analysis; 5.1 Background; 5.1.1 Snow avalanche formation, geomorphology and land use planning; 5.1.2 General methodological framework of risk management; 5.2 Review and recent trends in hazard analysis. | |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Natural disasters. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Geomorphology. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Hazardous geographic environments. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Hazardous geographic environments |x Risk assessment. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Natural disasters |x Prevention. | |
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