ean 9780521769259 temática GEOFÍSICA, GEOLOGÍA año Publicación 2010 idioma INGLÉS editorial CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS páginas 304 formato CARTONÉ 36,29 €    PEDIR   NOVEDAD

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Human activities have had a huge impact on the environment and landscape, through industrialisation 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 hazards, such as floods, landslides, snow avalanches, soil erosion, and others. Geomorphological work includes not only the understanding but the mapping and modelling of Earth’s surface processes, many of which directly affect human societies. In addition, geomorphologists are becoming increasingly involved with the dimensions of societal problem solving, through vulnerability analysis, hazard and risk assessment and management. The work of geomorphologists is therefore of prime importance for disaster prevention. An international team of geomorphologists have contributed their expertise to this volume, making this a scientifically rigorous work for a wide audience of geomorphologists and other Earth scientists, including those involved in environmental science, hazard and risk assessment, management and policy.

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List of contributors 1. Introduction Andrew S. Goudie Part I. Processes: 2. Regional seismic shaking hazards in mountains William B. Bull 3. Volcanic hazards and risks: a geomorphic perspective Jean-Claude Thouret 4. Mountain hazards Olav Slaymaker 5. Review and future challenges in snow avalanche risk analysis Michael Bruendl, Perry Bartelt, Margreth Keiler and Thomas Glade 6. Landslide hazards David Petley 7. Catastrophic landslides and sedimentary budgets Monique Fort, Etienne Cossart and Gilles Arnaud-Fassetta 8. Landslides and climactic change Lisa Borgatti and Mauro Soldati 9. The hazardness of high-magnitude floods Avijit Gupta 10. Flood hazards: the context of fluvial geomorphology Gerardo Benito and Paul F. Hudson 11. Geomorphology and coastal hazards Harley Jesse Walker and Molly McGraw 12. Weathering hazards Andrew S. Goudie and Heather Viles 13. Hazards associated to Karst Francisco Gutiérrez 14. Soil erosion Andrew S. Goudie and John Boardman 15. Desertification and land degradation in arid and semi-arid regions Yang Xiaoping 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 18. Hazards assessment for risk analysis and risk management Michael Crozier and Thomas Glade 19. Vulnerability analysis in geomorphic risk assessment Gabi Hufschmidt and Thomas Glade 20. Geomorphological hazards and global climate change Andrew S. Goudie 21. Geomorphic hazards and sustainable development David Higgitt 22. Geomorphology and disaster prevention Irasema Alcántara-Ayala 23. Concluding remarks: geomorphology and the international agenda Irasema Alcántara-Ayala Index.