Screen LibraryVolcanic hazards, risks and disasters /
"Volcanic Hazards, Risks, and Disasters provides you with the latest scientific developments in volcano and volcanic research, including causality, impacts, preparedness, risk analysis, planning, response, recovery, and the economics of loss and remediation. It takes a geoscientific approach to...
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Elsevier,
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| Publisher Address: | Amsterdam ; Boston : |
| Publication Dates: | [2015] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Hazards and disasters series
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"Volcanic Hazards, Risks, and Disasters provides you with the latest scientific developments in volcano and volcanic research, including causality, impacts, preparedness, risk analysis, planning, response, recovery, and the economics of loss and remediation. It takes a geoscientific approach to the topic while integrating the social and economic issues related to volcanoes and volcanic hazards and disasters. Throughout the book case studies are presented of historically relevant volcanic and seismic hazards and disasters as well as recent catastrophes, such as Chile's Puyehue volcano eruptio |
| Carrier Form: | xxv, 505 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780123964533 (hardback) : 0123964539 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | QE527 |
| CLC: | P317.9 |
| Call Number: | P317.9/V911 |
| Contents: | Introduction -- Global distribution of active volcanoes / Elizabeth Cottrell -- Basaltic lava flow hazard / Andrew J. L. Harris -- Impacts from volanic ash fall / Thomas M. Wilson, Susanna Jenkins, Carol Steward -- Volcanic ash hazards and aviation risk / Marianne Guffanti, Andrew Tupper -- Pyroclastic density current hazards and risk / Augusto Neri, Tomaso Esposti Ongaro, Barry Voight, Christina Widiwijayanti -- Lahars at Cotopaxi and Tungurahua volcaneos, Ecuador: highlights from stratigraphy and observational records and related downstream hazards / Patricia A. Mothes, James W. Vallance - |