Natural disaster risk management geosciences and social responsibility /
Many aspects of disaster risk management, such as for earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods, avalanches and mudslides call for similar prevention and preparedness instruments, management concepts, and countermeasures. This textbook assumes the viewpoint of a regional disaster risk manager who is r...
| Main Author: | Ranke, Ulrich, |
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| Other Authors: | SpringerLink (Online service) |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cham :
Springer,
[2016]
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xx, 514 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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| Summary: |
Many aspects of disaster risk management, such as for earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods, avalanches and mudslides call for similar prevention and preparedness instruments, management concepts, and countermeasures. This textbook assumes the viewpoint of a regional disaster risk manager who is responsible for a certain area, and for making the lives of the people who live there safer, regardless of the type of natural disaster that may occur. The same holds true for boosting preparedness and awareness in the population at risk. The book includes numerous examples of hazard mitigation concepts and techniques, as well as ways of intensively involving the local population in prevention schemes at an early stage. Furthermore, this textbook provides an in-depth examination of the function of risk communication, both as an instrument for official information dissemination and as a function of public media. To close, a chapter on risk splitting offers insights into insurance-based models for risk financing. |
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Includes bibliographical references. Intro; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; 1 Introduction; References; 2 Natural Disaster and Society; 2.1 Major Natural Disasters and Their Socioeconomic Impact; 2.1.1 Natural Disaster Triggered Nuclear Accident; 2.1.2 World Food Price Increase Due to Drought; 2.1.3 Sea-Level Rise and the Survival of Small Island States; 2.1.4 Respiratory Hazards from Ash Clouds; 2.1.5 Failure of State (Hurricane Katrina, United States); 2.2 Natural Disaster and the Society of Risk; 2.2.1 Population Dynamics and Risk; 2.2.2 Benefit and Risk-A Cause-Effect Relationship; 2.2.3 Population at Risk. 2.2.4 Gender Relation to Natural Disasters2.2.5 Traumatization; 2.2.6 Social Connotation of Disaster Impact; 2.3 Risk to Economy; 2.3.1 Eyjafjallajökull, Iceland; 2.3.2 International Impact of Local Events (Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Failure); 2.3.3 The Great Flood of 1993 (United States); References; 3 Natural Disasters: Definitions and Classification; 3.1 Natural Disaster Classification: General Aspects; 3.2 Natural Hazards Originating from the Solid Earth; 3.2.1 Geotectonic Hazards; 3.2.1.1 The Earth Structure; Plate Tectonics; Plate Boundaries; Divergent Boundaries. Convergent BoundariesTransform Boundaries; Earthquakes; 3.2.1.2 Measuring Earthquakes; Richter Magnitude Scale; Macroseismic; Volcano Seismology; Reservoir-Induced Seismicity; Geothermal Power Plant at Landau, Rhine-Pallatine (Germany); Earthquakes Generated from Producing Gas Field (Groningen, Netherlands); Induced Earthquakes from Waste Water Reinjection; 3.2.1.3 Liquefaction; 3.2.1.4 Earthquake Prediction; 3.2.1.5 Examples of Earthquake Occurrences; The First "Well-Known" Earthquake (Lisbon Earthquake, 1755); Transform Fault Earthquake (Loma Prieta, California, 1989) Transform Fault Earthquake (Haiti, 2010)Earthquake Hit a Megacity (Kobe, Japan 1995); Earthquake in Istanbul (1999); Earthquakes in Western Europe; 3.2.1.6 Tsunami; 3.2.1.7 Volcano; 3.2.1.8 Examples of Volcanic Eruptions; Paricutin, Mexico (Birth of a Volcano); Explosive and Lahars (Mt. Pinatubo, Luzon, Philippines); Lateral Blasts and Lahars (Mt. St. Helens, United States); Mount Pelée (Pyroclastic Surge = Nuée Ardente); Nevada del Ruiz (Mudflow, Lahar); Island (Rift Volcano); Hawaii (Hotspot); Lake Nyos (CO2 Accumulated in Volcanic Crater Lakes); Caldera (Santorini Volcano) 3.2.2 Hydrological Hazards3.2.2.1 Flood; 3.2.2.2 Mass Movements (Landslides, Debris Flows, Avalanches); 3.2.2.3 Landslide Dams; 3.2.2.4 Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF); Factors Influencing the Onset of Landslides; 3.2.2.5 Green Lake Landslide (New Zealand); 3.2.2.6 Mt. Rainer Landslide (Lahar); 3.2.2.7 Landslides Triggered by Tropical Storm; 3.2.2.8 Submarine Landslides (Grand Banks, Canada; Storegga, Norway; Lithuya Bay, Alaska); 3.2.2.9 Snow Avalanche; 3.2.3 Natural Disasters Versus "Extreme Events"; 3.3 Natural Disaster Distribution; 3.3.1 Type of Disaster. Many aspects of disaster risk management, such as for earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods, avalanches and mudslides call for similar prevention and preparedness instruments, management concepts, and countermeasures. This textbook assumes the viewpoint of a regional disaster risk manager who is responsible for a certain area, and for making the lives of the people who live there safer, regardless of the type of natural disaster that may occur. The same holds true for boosting preparedness and awareness in the population at risk. The book includes numerous examples of hazard mitigation concepts and techniques, as well as ways of intensively involving the local population in prevention schemes at an early stage. Furthermore, this textbook provides an in-depth examination of the function of risk communication, both as an instrument for official information dissemination and as a function of public media. To close, a chapter on risk splitting offers insights into insurance-based models for risk financing. English. |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xx, 514 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9783319206752 3319206753 3319206745 9783319206745 |