Geomorphological hazards and disaster prevention
Human activities have had a huge impact on the environment and landscape, through industrialization and land-use change, leading to climate change, deforestation, desertification, land degradation, air and water pollution. These impacts are strongly linked to the occurrence of geomorphological hazar...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press
2010.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introduction / Andrew S. Goudie
- Part I: Processes.
- 2. Regional seismic shaking hazards in mountains / William B. Bull. Introduction
- Lichenometry site characteristics
- Regional sesimic shaking
- Conclusions
- 3. Volcanic hazards and risks : a geomorphological perspective / Jean-Claude Thouret
- Introduction
- Direct volcanic hazards around active volcanoes
- Indirect volcanic hazards and geomorphic impact
- Post-eruption geomorphic impacts and respones
- Long-term geomorphic hazards around inactive volcanoes
- Methods and goals of volcano hazard and risk assessment
- Concluding remarks and perspectives
- 4. Mountain hazards / Olav Slaymaker
- Introduction to mountain geomorphic hazards
- Site scale
- Drainage basin scale
- Global scale
- Conclusion in light of accelerating environmental change
- Conclusions-- 5. Review and future challenges in snow avalanche risk analysis / Michael Bründl, Perry Bartelt, Jürg Schweizer, Margreth Keiler and Thomas Glade
- Background
- Review and recent trends in hazard analysis
- Change in avalanche risk, influence of different risk factors
- Conclusions: where to go from here; future challenges
- 6. Landslide hazards / David Petley
- Introduction
- Landslide causes and triggers
- The role of geomorphology in landslide hazard management
- Terrain mapping
- Susceptibility analysis
- Hazard and stability analyses
- Monitoring, behaviour prediction and warning systems
- Secondary hazards and sediment production
- Conclusions
- 7. Catastrophic landslides and sedimentary budgets / Monique Fort, Etienne Cossart and Gilles Arnaud-Fassetta
- Catastrophic landslides: definition, modes of emplacement and geomorphic significance
- Geomorphic impacts of catastrophic landslides
- Forecasting and preventing
- Conclusions
- 8. Landslides and climatic change / Lisa Borgatti and Mauro Soldati
- Introduction
- Conceptual framework
- Landslides and climate: state of the art
- Conclusions: landslides in a changing environment, issues and perspectives
- 9. The hazardousness of high-magnitude floods / Avijit Gupta
- Introduction
- Flood climate
- Non-meteorological floods
- Flood physiology
- Floods and geographical locations
- Water and sediment transfer in floods
- Source-to-sink passage of a flood
- Types of flood hazard and their location
- Conclusions: flood hazards and climate change.
- 10. Flood hazards : the context of fluvial geomorphology / Gerardo Benito and Paul F. Hudson
- Introduction
- Fluvial geomorphology in flood hazard assessment
- Flood hazards in the context of global climate change
- Geomorphological adjustment to flood management
- Flood hazard management: an integrated approach
- Conclusions
- 11. Geomorphology and coastal hazards / Harley J. Walker and Molly McGraw
- Introduction
- Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and tsumani
- Landslides
- Meteorological events and coastal disaster
- Other coastal hazards/disasters
- Conclusions-- 12. Weathering hazards / Andrew S. Goudie and Heather Viles
- Introduction
- Salt weathering
- Changing dimensions of the salt weathering hazard
- Atmospheric pollution and weathering
- Changing dimensions of the air pollution-induced weathering hazard
- Fire, lightning and thermal fatigue
- Mitigation
- Conclusions
- 13. Hazards associated with karst / Francisco Gutiérrez
- Introduction: why are hazards associated with karst important?
- Sinkhole hazard
- Other hazards associated with karst
- Conclusions
- 14. Soil erosion / Andrew S. Goudie and John Boardman
- Introduction: the nature of the problem
- Forms of erosion
- Rates of erosion: natural and anthropogenic
- Assessment of current erosion
- Consequences of erosion
- Causation: soil erosion associated with deforestation and agriculture
- Soil erosion produced by fire
- Soil erosion associated with construction and urbanization
- Humans or nature?
- Soil erosion by wind
- Global hotspots of erosion
- Soil conservation: water erosion
- Soil conservation : wind erosion
- Conclusion
- 15. Desertification and land degradation in arid and semi-arid regions / Yang Xiaoping
- Introduction
- Regional-scale hazards and causes
- Global-scale hazards
- Conclusions
- 16. Dune migration and encroachment / Andrew S. Goudie
- Introduction
- Methods of study
- Rates of dune movement
- Control
- Conclusions.
- Part II: Processes and applications of geomorphology to risk assessment and management.
- 17. GIS for the assessment of risk from geomorphological hazards / Cees J. van Westen
- Introduction
- Spatial data requirements for risk assessment
- Hazard assessment
- Vulnerability and risk assessment
- Risk management
- Conclusions
- 18. Hazard assessment for risk analysis and risk management / Michael Crozier and Thomas Glade
- Approach
- Basic concepts and issues
- The contribution of geomorphology to hazard assessment
- Conclusions and perspectives
- 19. Vulnerability analysis in geomorphic risk assessment / Gabi Hufschmidt and Thomas Glade
- Rationale
- Different vulnerability approaches towards risk reduction
- Science and technology
- The human ecology approach
- Vulnerability and the applied sciences
- Vulnerability and the structuralist paradigm
- Summary and perspectives
- 20. Geomorphological hazards and global climate change / Andrew S. Goudie
- Introduction
- Coastal hazards
- Hydrological hazards
- Mass movement and soil erosion hazards
- Glacial and permafrost hazards
- Aeolian hazards
- Conclusions
- 21. Geomorphic hazards and sustainable development / David Higgitt
- Introduction
- Challenges to the dominant paradigm of natural hazards
- Vulnerability and resilience: Asian earthquakes
- Geomorphology, hazards and sustainability
- Flood hazards in Southeast Asia: links with sustainable management
- Conclusions-- 22. Geomorphology and disaster prevention / Irasema Alcántara-Ayala
- Geomorphological hazards
- Disasters: the international framework
- 1900-2000: beyond a century of disasters
- Geomorphology: a brief account of contributing research, methodologies and techniques
- Conclusions: the future agenda
- 23. Geomorphology and the international agenda : concluding remarks / Irasema Alcántara-Ayala.
