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Part of the book series: Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research (NTHR, volume 17)
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Natural hazards such as earthquakes, landslides, floods, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, and hurricanes cause environmental, economic as well as sociological problems worldwide. In recent years, greater availability of information and sensational media reports of natural hazard occurrence -and in particular in terms of property damage or loss oflife caused by these hazards -resulted in an increase of hazard awareness at a societal level. This increase in public awareness has often been misconstrued as an indication that natural hazards have been occurring more frequently with higher magnitudes in recent years/decades, thus causing more damage than in the past. It is still under debate, however, to which extent recent increases in damage can be related to changing frequencies of natural processes, or whether catastrophic events occur at similar rates as they always had. If the latter is the case, the reason for a greater damage can be related to dramatic population growth over the last century, with a substantial augmentation of population density in some regions. Indeed, the implications are more server in underdeveloped and developing countries, where urbanisation has increasingly occurred in hazard prone areas such as coastal zones, alluvial river plains and steep slopes, thus causing an increase in the exposure to natural hazards. Some groups of society in wealthy countries accept higher risks in order to live directly on top of a cliff or on a steep slope to enjoy panoramic views of the landscape.
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Earthquakes
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Floods
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Landslides
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Back Matter
Reviews
From the reviews:
"This book contains a collection of papers that deals particularly with the implementation of historical data in three areas of hazard assessment, namely earthquakes, floods and landsides. … this book is a powerful indicator that historical data in the three areas of hazard assessment have similar characteristics, namely very high magnitude events with substantial uncertainty. Hence the research done in combining these data with the modern records should be shared to facilitate better hazard assessments." (Mayshree Bejaichund and Andrzej Kijko, Pure and Applied Geophysics, Vol. 163, 2006)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Use of Historical Data in Natural Hazard Assessments
Editors: Thomas Glade, Paola Albini, Félix Francés
Series Title: Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3490-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2001
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-7154-0Published: 30 November 2001
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-5762-4Published: 15 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-3490-5Published: 09 March 2013
Series ISSN: 1878-9897
Series E-ISSN: 2213-6959
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 222
Number of Illustrations: 66 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Hydrogeology, Geophysics/Geodesy, Geographical Information Systems/Cartography