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  • 26 - Geohazard Analysis for Disaster Risk Reduction and Sustainability
  • from Part VII - Future Earth and Risk, Safety and Security
  • Edited by Tom Beer, Jianping Li, Beijing Normal University, Keith Alverson
  • Book: Global Change and Future Earth
  • Published online: 22 October 2018
  • Print publication: 18 October 2018, pp 349-363
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    Summary

    Understanding of disasters associated with geohazard events, such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and lava flows, landslides and tsunamis, results from recent advances in basic sciences, and particularly advances in Earth observations, analysis, and modelling. This allows for comprehensive hazard assessments combining knowledge of seismology, volcanology, geology, oceanography, geodesy, electromagnetism, hydrology, and soil properties with modelling tools and forecasting. In the chapter some advances in analysis of seismic and lava flow hazards are analyzed, and an interaction of risk components (geohazard, vulnerability, and exposure) is presented. Some past major geohazard events and their impact on society and sustainability are overviewed. Disaster risk reduction in the framework of sustainable development goals is then discussed
Extreme Natural Hazards, Disaster Risks and Societal Implications
  • Extreme Natural Hazards, Disaster Risks and Societal Implications
  • Edited by Alik Ismail-Zadeh, Jaime Urrutia Fucugauchi, Andrzej Kijko, Kuniyoshi Takeuchi, Ilya Zaliapin
  • Published online: 05 May 2014
  • Print publication: 17 April 2014
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    This book presents a unique, interdisciplinary approach to disaster risk research, combining cutting-edge natural science and social science methodologies. Bringing together leading scientists, policy makers and practitioners from around the world, it presents the risks of global hazards such as volcanoes, seismic events, landslides, hurricanes, precipitation floods and space weather, and provides real-world hazard case studies from Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific region. Avoiding complex mathematics, the authors provide insight into topics such as the vulnerability of society, disaster risk reduction policy, relations between disaster policy and climate change, adaptation to hazards, and (re)insurance approaches to extreme events. This is a key resource for academic researchers and graduate students in a wide range of disciplines linked to hazard and risk studies, including geophysics, volcanology, hydrology, atmospheric science, geomorphology, oceanography and remote sensing, and for professionals and policy makers working in disaster prevention and mitigation.

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