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Volcanic 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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Corporate Authors: Elsevier Science & Technology
Group Author: Papale, Paolo
Published: Elsevier,
Publisher Address: Amsterdam ; Boston :
Publication Dates: 2014.
©2015
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Hazards and disasters series
Subjects:
Volcanic hazard analysis
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General
Electronic books
Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780123964533
Summary: "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: 1 online resource : illustrations.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN: 9780123964762
0123964768
Index Number: QE527
CLC: P317
Contents: FrontCover; Volcanic Hazards, Risks, and Disasters; Copyright; Contents; Co-editors; Contributors; EditorialForeword; Introduction; Chapter 1 -- Global Distribution of Active Volcanoes; 1.4 PATTERNS IN VOLCANO-RELATED FATALITIES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 2.2 WHAT MAKES A LAVA FLOW HAZARDOUS?; 9.2 THE BRADYSEISMIC CRISES AT CAMPI FLEGREI IN 1982-1984; REFERENCES; 3.6 MOVING FORWARD; 5.2 PDC GENERATION AND DYNAMICS; 6.2 TERMINOLOGY AND FUNDAMENTALS OF LAHAR GENERATION; 15.2 THE AD 1783-1784 LAKI ERUPTION; 2.5 CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; 8.2 PROBABILISTIC VERSUS DETERMINISTIC FORECASTS.
8.9 applications of probabilistic volcanic event trees8.10 public presentation of probabilistic event trees?; 8.11 future improvements; references; 9.5 operational short-term pvha: results; 10.2 human vulnerability and buildings; 11.2 the roots of value-based decision-making; 12.5 managing the insurance risk; 8.8 applications of the multiple data sets method, by vdap and others; 12.8 local events-cities at risk; 13.2 volcanic hazard assessments for mc; 17.2 state of the art of the european volcanological ris; references; 14.2 characteristics of fuji volcano; references; 15.5 discussion.
16.2 SUPERSIZED ERUPTIONS18.2 TARGET VOLCANOES FOR MONITORING; REFERENCES; REFERENCES; Index.

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