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Book Synopsis Introduction to the San Francisco Bay Region, California, Landslide Folio by : San Francisco Bay Landslide Mapping Team
Download or read book Introduction to the San Francisco Bay Region, California, Landslide Folio written by San Francisco Bay Landslide Mapping Team and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Partnerships for Reducing Landslide Risk by : National Research Council
Download or read book Partnerships for Reducing Landslide Risk written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2004-03-15 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landslides occur in all geographic regions of the nation in response to a wide range of conditions and triggering processes that include storms, earthquakes, and human activities. Landslides in the United States result in an estimated average of 25 to 50 deaths annually and cost $1 to 3 billion per year. In addition to direct losses, landslides also cause significant environmental damage and societal disruption. Partnerships for Reducing Landslide Risk reviews the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS)National Landslide Hazards Mitigation Strategy, which was created in response to a congressional directive for a national approach to reducing losses from landslides. Components of the strategy include basic research activities, improved public policy measures, and enhanced mitigation of landslides. This report commends the USGS for creating a national approach based on partnerships with federal, state, local, and non-governmental entities, and finds that the plan components are the essential elements of a national strategy. Partnerships for Reducing Landslide Risk recommends that the plan should promote the use of risk analysis techniques, and should play a vital role in evaluating methods, setting standards, and advancing procedures and guidelines for landslide hazard maps and assessments. This report suggests that substantially increased funding will be required to implement a national landslide mitigation program, and that as part of a 10-year program the funding mix should transition from research and guideline development to partnership-based implementation of loss reduction measures.
Book Synopsis New Publications of the Geological Survey by : Geological Survey (U.S.)
Download or read book New Publications of the Geological Survey written by Geological Survey (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis New Publications of the U.S. Geological Survey by : Geological Survey (U.S.)
Download or read book New Publications of the U.S. Geological Survey written by Geological Survey (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications by :
Download or read book Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications written by and published by . This book was released on 1999-07 with total page 1154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Confronting Catastrophe by : R. W. Greene
Download or read book Confronting Catastrophe written by R. W. Greene and published by ESRI, Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook explains the importance and practice of using a geographic information system (GIS) in designing and implementing an effective response to large-scale disasters, including wildfires, hurricanes, earthquakes, and terrorist attacks. The handbook is organized according to the accepted methodology of disaster management, which involves planning and identification, mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery. The first three stages involve tasks that an organization or community can perform before a disaster occurs. The latter two tasks focus on postdisaster efforts. The spatial display and analysis tools of GIS are ideal for assessing disaster risks, consequences, and responses. GIS can display the location, size, value, and significance of assets that may be impacted by disasters. It can show the kinds of environmental, atmospheric, and other conditions that contribute to particular kinds of natural disasters. GIS can also juxtapose a particular kind of asset with specific hazardous conditions over a wide geographic area, thus allowing a precise calculation of potential loss in the immediate area. With this kind of graphic depiction, the choices about what to do and where to do it are clarified for those charged with making fast, cost-effective decisions. This handbook details how GIS software features can be used at each stage of planning and response. The use of GIS in a disaster is illustrated by its application in New York City in the days after September 11, where it was used to provide assistance to rescue and recovery teams. The manual also profiles GIS-based disaster modeling software packages now available at no cost to local communities.
Book Synopsis New Publications of the U.S. Geological Survey by :
Download or read book New Publications of the U.S. Geological Survey written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bibliographic Guide to Maps and Atlases 2001 by : G. K. Hall and Co. Staff
Download or read book Bibliographic Guide to Maps and Atlases 2001 written by G. K. Hall and Co. Staff and published by G. K. Hall. This book was released on 2002-07 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Landslides, Floods, and Marine Effects of the Storm of January 3-5, 1982, in the San Francisco Bay Region, California by :
Download or read book Landslides, Floods, and Marine Effects of the Storm of January 3-5, 1982, in the San Francisco Bay Region, California written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Landslide Hazard and Risk by : Thomas Glade
Download or read book Landslide Hazard and Risk written by Thomas Glade and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2006-01-04 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the increasing need to take an holistic view of landslide hazard and risk, this book overviews the concept of risk research and addresses the sociological and psychological issues resulting from landslides. Its integrated approach offers understanding and ability for concerned organisations, landowners, land managers, insurance companies and researchers to develop risk management solutions. Global case studies illustrate a variety of integrated approaches, and a concluding section provides specifications and contexts for the next generation of process models.
Book Synopsis Golden Gate National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), Point Reyes National Seashore, Marin County, Giacomini Wetland Restoration Project by :
Download or read book Golden Gate National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), Point Reyes National Seashore, Marin County, Giacomini Wetland Restoration Project written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Geology of the San Francisco Bay Region by : Doris Sloan
Download or read book Geology of the San Francisco Bay Region written by Doris Sloan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-06-27 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You can't really know the place where you live until you know the shapes and origins of the land around you. To feel truly at home in the Bay Area, read Doris Sloan's intriguing stories of this region's spectacular, quirky landscapes."—Hal Gilliam, author of Weather of the San Francisco Bay Region "This is a fascinating look at some of the world's most complex and engaging geology. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in an understanding of the beautiful landscape and dynamic geology of the Bay Area."—Mel Erskine, geological consultant "This accessible summary of San Francisco Bay Area geology is particularly timely. We are living in an age where we must deal with our impact on our environment and the impact of the environment on us. Earthquake hazards, and to a lesser extent landslide hazards, are well known, but the public also needs to be aware of other important engineering and environmental impacts and geologic resources. This book will allow Bay Area residents to make more intelligent decisions about the geological issues affecting their lives."—John Wakabayashi, geological consultant
Book Synopsis U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper by :
Download or read book U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Geological Survey Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Selected Bibliography and Index of Earth Science Reports and Maps Relating to Land-resource Planning and Management Published by the U.S. Geological Survey Through October 1976 by :
Download or read book Selected Bibliography and Index of Earth Science Reports and Maps Relating to Land-resource Planning and Management Published by the U.S. Geological Survey Through October 1976 written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Rocks and Mineral Resources of the Wolf Creek Area, Lewis and Clark and Cascade Counties, Montana by : David A. Seeland
Download or read book Rocks and Mineral Resources of the Wolf Creek Area, Lewis and Clark and Cascade Counties, Montana written by David A. Seeland and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Assembling California by : John McPhee
Download or read book Assembling California written by John McPhee and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of California at Davis. The result of these trips is Assembling California, a cross-section in human and geologic time, from Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada through the golden foothills of the Mother Lode and across the Great Central Valley to the wine country of the Coast Ranges, the rock of San Francisco, and the San Andreas family of faults. The two disparate time scales occasionally intersect—in the gold disruptions of the nineteenth century no less than in the earthquakes of the twentieth—and always with relevance to a newly understood geologic history in which half a dozen large and separate pieces of country are seen to have drifted in from far and near to coalesce as California. McPhee and Moores also journeyed to remote mountains of Arizona and to Cyprus and northern Greece, where rock of the deep-ocean floor has been transported into continental settings, as it has in California. Global in scope and a delight to read, Assembling California is a sweeping narrative of maps in motion, of evolving and dissolving lands.
