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This book discusses that disasters, whether natural or man-made, are essentially a human phenomenon. When a city becomes gridlocked and its resources depleted, the collective resilience of those who remain on the ground becomes critical to its immediate survival and recovery.
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The contributors cover topics such as climate change adaptation in coastal zones, the evaluation of community land models, climate change considerations... Læs mere
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Why aren’t we investing more in disaster resilience, despite the rising costs of disaster events?
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This volume presents the history of marine fog research and applications, and discusses the physical processes leading to fog's formation, evolution, and dissipation.
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This book includes the recent 10-year achievement of geo-disaster mitigation by leading Asian scientists from Japan, China, Indonesia, Korea, Iran and Far East of Russia.
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This volume synthesizes critical environmental challenges of dynamic earth and human environment systems in South... Læs mere
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The book investigates methods of tsunami monitoring including coastal mareographs, deep-water pressure gauges, GPS buoys, satellite altimetry, the study of ionospheric disturbances caused by tsunamis and the study of paleotsunamis.
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This book introduces a new way of analyzing, measuring and thinking about mega-risks, a “paradigm shift” that moves from single-solutions to multiple competitive solutions and strategies.
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Chapters provide innovative thinking on themes including cyber security, maritime security, transnational crime, human security, globalization and economic security.
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This volume provides in-depth coverage of the latest in remote sensing of hydrological extremes: both floods and droughts.
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This fascination drove many of the applications of the Di?erential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy (DOAS) method presented in this book, and continues to be the motivation for many current developments.