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Earthquake Hazard, Risk and Disasters

Author : Rasoul Sorkhabi
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0123964725
Total Pages : 607 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (239 download)

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Download or read book Earthquake Hazard, Risk and Disasters written by Rasoul Sorkhabi and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2014-06-16 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earthquake Hazard, Risk, and Disasters presents the latest scientific developments and reviews of research addressing seismic hazard and seismic risk, including causality rates, impacts on society, preparedness, insurance and mitigation. The current controversies in seismic hazard assessment and earthquake prediction are addressed from different points of view. Basic tools for understanding the seismic risk and to reduce it, like paleoseismology, remote sensing, and engineering are discussed. Contains contributions from expert seismologists, geologists, engineers and geophysicists selected by a world-renowned editorial board Presents the latest research on seismic hazard and risk assessment, economic impacts, fatality rates, and earthquake preparedness and mitigation Includes numerous illustrations, maps, diagrams and tables addressing earthquake risk reduction Features new insights and reviews of earthquake prediction, forecasting and early warning, as well as basic tools to deal with earthquake risk

Earthquake Hazard, Risk and Disasters

Author : Rasoul Sorkhabi
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 9780123948489
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (484 download)

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Download or read book Earthquake Hazard, Risk and Disasters written by Rasoul Sorkhabi and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earthquake Hazard, Risk, and Disasters presents the latest scientific developments and reviews of research addressing seismic hazard and seismic risk, including causality rates, impacts on society, preparedness, insurance and mitigation. The current controversies in seismic hazard assessment and earthquake prediction are addressed from different points of view. Basic tools for understanding the seismic risk and to reduce it, like paleoseismology, remote sensing, and engineering are discussed.

Earthquake Hazard and Seismic Risk Reduction

Author : Serguei Balassanian
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401595445
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)

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Book Synopsis Earthquake Hazard and Seismic Risk Reduction by : Serguei Balassanian

Download or read book Earthquake Hazard and Seismic Risk Reduction written by Serguei Balassanian and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1998 Armenia was commemorating the tenth anniversary of the catastrophic Spitak earthquake. The Second International Conference on "Earthquake Hazard and Seismic Risk Reduction" sponsored by the Government of the Republic of Armenia and United Nation's International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (UN/IDNDR) was held in dedication to that event between 14-21 September (later referred to as Yerevan Conference). The Yerevan Conference has been organized by the National Survey for Seismic Protection (NSSP) of the Republic of Armenia. All level's decision-makers (from the ministers to the local authorities), politicians, scientists, leaders of the executive and legislative powers, psychologists, leading businessmen, representatives from the private sector and the media as well as from the International Organizations have been invited by the Armenian NSSP to take part in joint discussion of the Seismic Risk Reduction Problem for the first time in the history of such forums. Armenian NSSP's such initiative has been triggered by the experience of the Spitak earthquake and other disasters. They showed that it will be possible to reduce the risks, posed by the natural disaster, only through the common efforts of all the community in co-operation with the International institutions.

Earthquake Hazard Impact and Urban Planning

Author : Maria Bostenaru Dan
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 940077981X
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Book Synopsis Earthquake Hazard Impact and Urban Planning by : Maria Bostenaru Dan

Download or read book Earthquake Hazard Impact and Urban Planning written by Maria Bostenaru Dan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classical field dealing with earthquakes is called “earthquake engineering” and considered to be a branch of structural engineering. In projects dealing with strategies for earthquake risk mitigation, urban planning approaches are often neglected. Today interventions are needed on a city, rather than a building, scale. This work deals with the impact of earthquakes, including also a broader view on multihazards in urban areas. Uniquely among other works in the field, particular importance is given to urban planning issues, in conservation of heritage and emergency management. Multicriteria decision making and broad participation of those affected by disasters are included.

Earthquake and Atmospheric Hazards

Author : Mohammed I. El-Sabh
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401150346
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)

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Book Synopsis Earthquake and Atmospheric Hazards by : Mohammed I. El-Sabh

Download or read book Earthquake and Atmospheric Hazards written by Mohammed I. El-Sabh and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earthquakes and Atmospheric Hazards contains a selection of papers that were presented as part of the Sixth International Symposium on Natural and Man-Made Hazards (HAZARDS-96) held in Toronto, Canada during July, 1996. The Symposium was very timely, given the large number of natural disasters that have occurred in various parts of the world during the 1990s, the United Nations' International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR). The human reaction to these disasters has varied widely from one event to the next and the economic and social costs have been immense with damage running into billions of dollars. Having in everyone's mind the Northridge, California (1994) and the Kobe, Japan (1995) earthquakes, the volcanoes in the Philippines, the cyclones and related storm surges in Bangladesh, and the floods in North America and Europe caused by heavy rains, the Symposium attracted more than one hundred papers covering various aspects of these events. The eleven papers included in this volume deal with the scientific and management issues of those earthquakes and atmospheric hazards that occurred during the late 1990s, with emphasis on the preparedness aspects. A summary report of the HAZARDS-96 Symposium and recommendations adopted by the participants is also included. Earthquakes and Atmospheric Hazards forms an excellent reference for scientists, students, engineers, the insurance industry, authorities specializing in public safety and natural hazards preparedness and mitigation plans.

A Safer Future

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309045460
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book A Safer Future written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1991-02-01 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Initial priorities for U.S. participation in the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, declared by the United Nations, are contained in this volume. It focuses on seven issues: hazard and risk assessment; awareness and education; mitigation; preparedness for emergency response; recovery and reconstruction; prediction and warning; learning from disasters; and U.S. participation internationally. The committee presents its philosophy of calls for broad public and private participation to reduce the toll of disasters.

Earthquake Disasters

Author : Jiuping Xu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000462471
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Earthquake Disasters written by Jiuping Xu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-26 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores practices and approaches on pre-disaster prevention and post-disaster reconstruction for vulnerable countries and areas enhancing earthquake disaster resilience. Destructive earthquakes have frequently occurred in urban or rural areas around the world, causing severe damage on human societies. Pre-earthquake prevention and post-earthquake reconstruction effect the disaster resilience building and long-term development of the affected communities and areas. In recent years, researchers from around the world have made a lot of efforts to study on the theme ‘earthquake disaster prevention and reconstruction’. The chapters in this edited volume contribute to the literature of earthquake disaster research from scientific, social and institutional aspects. These interdisciplinary studies mainly focus on human and policy dimensions of earthquake disaster, such as earthquake risk mitigation, social-physical resilience building, resilience capability assessment, healthcare surge capacity, house reconstruction, the roles of schools, households, civil societies and public participation in earthquake disaster prevention and reconstruction. The authors come from several counties, including China, Bangladesh, Iran, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom, Denmark, and Indonesia, covering the cases from those countries prone to earthquakes. These nine distinctive chapters have been elaborately selected and integrated from the international, ranked, peer-reviewed journal, Environmental Hazards.

Natural Hazards

Author : Edward A. Keller
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351673718
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Natural Hazards written by Edward A. Keller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-29 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new revised fifth edition of Natural Hazards remains the go-to introductory-level survey intended for university and college courses that are concerned with earth processes that have direct, and often sudden and violent, impacts on human society. The text integrates principles of geology, hydrology, meteorology, climatology, oceanography, soil science, ecology, and solar system astronomy. The textbook explains the earth processes that drive hazardous events in an understandable way, illustrates how these processes interact with our civilization, and describes how we can better adjust to their effects. Written by leading scholars in the area, the new edition of this book takes advantage of the greatly expanding amount of information regarding natural hazards, disasters, and catastrophes. The text is designed for learning, with chapters broken into small consumable chunks of content for students. Each chapter opens with a list of learning objectives and ends with revision as well as high-level critical thinking questions. A Concepts in Review feature provides an innovative end-of-chapter section that breaks down the chapter content by parts: reviewing the learning objectives, summary points, important visuals, and key terms. New case studies of hazardous events have been integrated into the text, and students are invited to actively apply their understanding of the five fundamental concepts that serve as a conceptual framework for the text. Figures, illustrations, and photos have been updated throughout. The book is designed for a course in natural hazards for nonscience majors, and a primary goal of the text is to assist instructors in guiding students who may have little background in science to understand physical earth processes as natural hazards and their consequences to society.

Environmental Hazards

Author : Prof Keith Smith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134368860
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Environmental Hazards written by Prof Keith Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth edition of Environmental Hazards continues to blend physical and social sciences to provide a thoroughly balanced, contemporary introduction to hazards analysis and mitigation strategies. It covers all the major rapid-onset events, whether natural, human or technological in origin which directly threaten humans and what they value. Environmental Hazards provides a lucid comprehensive introduction to both the theory and practice of hazards and their mitigation, drawing on interdisciplinary insights. It is essential reading for students of geography, environmental science, earth science and geology.

Extreme Natural Hazards, Disaster Risks and Societal Implications

Author : Alik Ismail-Zadeh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107033861
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Extreme Natural Hazards, Disaster Risks and Societal Implications written by Alik Ismail-Zadeh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-17 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique interdisciplinary approach to disaster risk research, including global hazards and case-studies, for researchers, graduate students and professionals.

Earthquake Hazards and Mitigation

Author : R. Ayothiraman
Publisher : I. K. International Pvt Ltd
ISBN 13 : 818986677X
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (898 download)

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Download or read book Earthquake Hazards and Mitigation written by R. Ayothiraman and published by I. K. International Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2008 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: discusses the new developments in the field of earthquake engineering and allied areas, " gives information about present state-of-the-art and current practices adopted globally in prediction and mitigation of earthquake hazards, " explores novel and innovative methods for prediction and mitigation of hazards considering the future earthquakes for building sustainable/ safe infrastructures and ensuring safety of community.

Reducing earthquake losses

Author :
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428920374
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book Reducing earthquake losses written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earthquakes have caused massive death and destruction, and potentially damaging earthquakes are certain to occur in the future. Although earthquakes are uncontrollable, the losses they cause can be reduced by building structures that resist earthquake damage, matching land use to risk, developing emergency response plans, and other means. Since 1977, the federal government has had a research oriented program to reduce earthquake losses the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP). This program has made significant contributions toward improving our understanding of earthquakes and strategies to reduce their impact. Implementing action based on this understanding, however, has been quite difficult. This chapter provides an introduction to earthquakes: a sum mary of the earthquake hazard across the United States, a review of the types of losses earthquakes cause, a discussion of why earthquakes are a congressional concern, and an introduction to mitigation actions taken prior to earthquakes that can reduce losses when they occur. The federal policy response to date, NEHRP is then described and reviewed. Finally, specific policy options for improving federal efforts to reduce future earthquake losses are presented.

Seismic Safety and Land-use Planning--selected Examples from California

Author : M. L. Blair
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seismic Safety and Land-use Planning--selected Examples from California written by M. L. Blair and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Methods for using seismic zonation and hazard mapping in land-use planning and regulation.

Earthquakes: Risk, Detection, Warning, and Research

Author : Peter Folger
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1437928072
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (379 download)

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Book Synopsis Earthquakes: Risk, Detection, Warning, and Research by : Peter Folger

Download or read book Earthquakes: Risk, Detection, Warning, and Research written by Peter Folger and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report discusses the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP), a program under which the federal government supports efforts to assess and monitor earthquake hazards and risk in the United States. This report also discusses earthquake hazards and risk in the United States; federal programs that support earthquake monitoring; the U.S. capability to detect earthquakes and issue notifications and warnings; and federally supported research to improve the fundamental scientific understanding of earthquakes with a goal of reducing U.S. vulnerability.

Reducing Earthquake Losses

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Reducing Earthquake Losses written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Promoting Risk

Author : Robert A. Stallings
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780202368283
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (682 download)

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Download or read book Promoting Risk written by Robert A. Stallings and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Stallings, the earthquake threat has failed to achieve the status of a fully constructed social problem, owing to the nature of the resources available to risk promoters and the strategy and tactics they have used to promote the risk of earthquakes. The results of his examination of a "partially" constructed social problem will prove useful not only to those exploring the dynamics of the social problems process, but also to those who study risk, public policy making, and environmental issues where risk is involved.

Risk Assessment, Modeling and Decision Support

Author : Ann Bostrom
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540711589
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Risk Assessment, Modeling and Decision Support written by Ann Bostrom and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-02-10 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this volume integrate results from current research efforts in earthquake engineering with research from the larger risk assessment community. The authors include risk and hazard researchers from the major U.S. hazard and earthquake centers. The volume lays out a road map for future developments in risk modeling and decision support, and positions earthquake engineering research within the family of risk analysis tools and techniques.