Encyclopedia of Natural Hazards
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基本信息出版社:Springer; 2013 (2013年3月15日)丛书名:Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series精装:1020页语种：英语ISBN:9048186994条形码:9789048186990ASIN:9048186994商品描述作者简介Peter Bobrowsky is an Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Natural Hazard Research, Department of Earth Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Canada. With over 30 years of professional experience as an engineering geologist he has worked in Africa, China, India, North America, South America and the Middle East. He served/serves on a number of bodies and organizations: Secretary General of the IUGS, President of the Geological Association of Canada, editorial board for Landslides and Quaternary International, President of the Canadian Quaternary Association and several others.目录A'lav Accelerometer 'Act of God' Aerial photography for hazard recognition Albedo Animals and hazards Antecedent conditions Anti-seismic design Ash Asteroids Automated Local Evaluation in Real Time (ALERT) system Avalanches Aviation, hazards to Avulsion Base surge Beach nourishment (replenishment) Beaufort scale of wind speeds Biblical events Body wave Breakwater Building codes Building failure Buildings, structures and public safety Calder Cartography of natural hazards Catastrophe and catastrophe theory Casualties in natural hazards Civil protection and civil contingencies management Classification of disasters Climate change Cloud seeding Coastal erosion Coastal zone, risk management Cognitive dissonance Cold spells and freezing weather hazards Collapsing soil hazards Comets Community management of hazards Convergence Cost-benefit analysis of natural hazard mitigation Costing and surveying damage Costs of natural hazards and disasters Creep Critical Incidence Stress Syndrome Cryological engineering Cyclone Damage and the built environment Debris avalanche (Sturzstrom) Debris flow Desertification Disaster Disaster relief Disease epidemics and pandemics Disease epidemiology of natural disasters Dispersive soil hazards Doppler radar and Nexrad Dose rate (of risk) Drought Dust Bowl, the Dust devil Dust storm Dvorak classification of hurricane seedlings Earthquake damage Earthquake prediction Earthquakes Economics of disasters Education and training for emergency preparedness Elastic rebound, theory of Electromagnetic radiation (EMR) El Nino Southern Oscillation, hazards associated with Emergency communication Emergency management Emergency mapping Emergency planning Emergency shelter Epicentre Erodibility Erosion Erosivity Evacuation Expansive soils and clays Expert systems for disaster management Exposure to natural hazards Extensometers and tiltmeters Failsafe design Famine Faults Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), USA Fetch Fire and firestorm Flash flood Flood deposits Flood hazards and disasters Floodplain Flood protection Flood stage Floodway Fluid withdrawal subsidence Fog hazards Fohn Forest and range fires (wildfire) Frequency and magnitude of events Frost hazards Fumarole Gap, seismic Gases Geographic information systems (GIS) and natural hazards Geological/geophysical disasters Glacier hazards Global change and its implications for natural disaster Global Positioning System (GPS) and natural hazards Global Telemetered Seismograph Network (GTSN) Groin Hadley cell Hail and hailstorms Harmonic tremor Hazard Hazardousness of place Heat waves High-rise buildings in natural disaster Historical events History of natural disasters Hospitals in disaster Human impact of hazards Human life, economic value of Humanity as an agent of geological disaster Hurricane (tropical cyclone, typhoon) Hydrocompaction subsidence Hydrograph, flood Hydrometeorological hazards Hypocentre Ice and icebergs Inclinometer Indian Ocean tsunami Induced seismicity Information and communications technology Insects Insurance Integrated emergency management system Intensity measures International strategies for disaster reduction: the IDNDR and ISDR Internet, World Wide Web and natural hazards Inversion layer Isoseismal Jet stream Jokulhlaup (debacle) Karst hazards Krakatoa (Krakatau) Lahar Landsat (satellite) Landslide (mass movement) Land degradation Land subsidence Land use, urbanization and natural hazards Lateral spreading Lava Levee Lightning Liquefaction Loading, consolidation and compaction subsidence Loess Macroseismic survey Magma Magnitude scales Mantled karst, dolines (sinkholes) Marginalization Marine hazards Mass media and natural disasters Mass movement Medical emergencies Megacities and natural hazards Mercalli, Giuseppe Meteorite Microzonation and macrozonation of natural hazards Misconceptions about natural disaster Mitigation Models of hazard and disaster Modified Mercalli (MM) scale Monitoring and prediction of natural hazards Monsoon Mortality and morbidity in natural disasters Mudflow Myths and misconceptions Natural disaster Natural disasters in developing countries Natural hazard Natural radioactivity Neotectonics Non-structural mitigation Nuee ardente (glowing avalanche) Overgrazing Ozone Pacific Tsunami Warning System (PTWS) Pahoehoe lava Paleoseismology Perception of natural hazards and disasters Permafrost Piezometer Piping hazards Planning measures and political aspects Plate tectonics Political economy of soil erosion disasters Pore-water pressure Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) Potential evapotranspiration (PET) Prediction of hazards Probable maximum precipitation (PMP) Primary (P wave) Psychological impacts of natural disasters Public health and sanitation in natural disasters Pyroclastiflow Quick clays and quick sands Radon hazards Recovery and reconstruction after disaster Recurrence interval Red Cross, the Release rate Remote sensing of natural hazards and disasters Reservoir dams and natural hazards Resilience Richter, Charles F. Risk estimation, assessment, management and communication Rogue wave Rotational slide San Andreas fault, California Santorini, eruption of Sea level change Search and rescue Sea surge Secondary (S wave) Sedimentation of rivers and reservoirs Seiche Seismic acceleration and attenuation Seismograph/seismometer Seismology Shear Shield volcano Simulation of natural disaster Sinkhole Slope stability Slumps and slides Snowstorms and blizzards Social behaviour Sociology of disasters Solifluction Storms and storm surge Structural mitigation Subduction Subsidence: economic and legal aspects Subsidence induced by underground mining Sunspots Supernova Surge Susceptibility Tangshan, China (1976 earthquake) Tectonic and tectono-seismic hazards Tephra Thunderstorms Tidal bore Time and space in disaster Tornadoes Triage Tsunamis United Nations Organisation and natural disasters Universal soil loss equation (USLE) Unreinforced masonry building Urban environments and natural hazards Vajont Dam, Italy Vesuvius Volcanoes/volcanic eruptions Vulnerability Warning systems Waterspouts World economy, impact of disasters on World-wide trends in natural disasters.Pedro BasabeTom BeerNorm CattoViacheslav GusiakovBill McGuireH. Jay MeloshFarrokh NadimPhilipp Schmidt-ThomePaul SlovicPeter T. Bobrowsky
