Part 1. Background -- Chapter 1. Human Ecology of Climate Change Hazards: Concepts, Literature Review and Methodology -- Chapter 2. Climate change associated hazards, impacts and vulnerability at regional level -- Part 2. Risks for nature and human in lowland -- Chapter 3. Climate Change Hazards and Migration along the Ky Anh coast -- Chapter 4. Gross Costs and Impact on Local Livelihood Capita…
Preface -- Introduction -- Application of Dense Offshore Tsunami Observations from Ocean Bottom Pressure Gauges (OBPGs) for Tsunami Research and Early Warnings -- Remote Sensing for Natural or Man-made Disasters and Environmental Changes -- Classification of Post-Earthquake High Resolution Images using Adaptive Dynamic Region Merging and Gravitational Self-Organizing Maps -- A Survey on the Rol…
1. Introduction -- 2. Seismic data assessment -- 3. Seismic signature of the caving process -- 4. Comparison of seismicity induced while mining hydro-fractured and non-preconditioned rock mass volumes -- 5. Summary and Conclusions -- Index. .This book presents the results of seismic data analysis and interpretation based on nearly one million seismic events. This seismicity was induced by the c…
Introduction: floods and water-level fluctuations in medieval (Central-)Europe -- An environmental background: floods, modern hydrology and medieval environment -- Long-term hydrological changes based on sedimentary and archaeological evidence -- Documentary sources and methodology -- Catalogue of floods in medieval Hungary 1001-1500: analysis of individual flood reports -- Floods in medieval H…
Inversion of the Earthquake Rupture Process: Methods, Case Studies and Applications to Emergency Response -- Rupture Process of the 2008 Wenchuan, China, Earthquake: A Review -- The Wenchuan Earthquake Fault Scientific Drilling (WFSD) Project -- Coordinated Distributed Experiments (CDEs) Applied to Earthquake Forecast Test Sites -- Annual Earthquake Potential Consultation: A Real Forward Predic…
Foreword -- Journey into the Past – Introduction -- Dams and Society: Treasures and Troubles – Safety of earthen dams -- Genealogy of the South Fork Dam -- Changes wrought by the South Fork Fishing & Hunting Club -- Gathering of Waters - How we study rivers in flood -- Storm Clouds – Dawn of the 1889 flood -- Day of the Dam Breach - Eyewitness account of engineer John Parke -- Aftermath -…
Chapter1: Technogenesis and natural disasters -- Chapter2: Complications and Prospects of the Hydrogeological Substantiation of Drainage in Deep Tunnels -- Chapter3: Probabilistic Approach to Forecast of the Risk Caused by Groundwater Contamination -- Chapter4: Landslide and Seismic Monitoring Systems -- Chapter5: Early-Warning Landslide Monitoring System -- Chapter6: Problems in forecasting da…
Introduction -- Volcanic Activity and Processes -- Volcanoes and Human Settlements -- Volcanoes and Risk.This book serves as a guide to discovering the most interesting volcano sites in Italy. Accompanied by some extraordinary contemporary images of active Neapolitan volcanoes, it explains the main volcanic processes that have been shaping the landscape of the Campania region and influencing hu…
1. Seismic Capacity Reduction Factors for a RC Beam and two RC Columns -- 2. Characterization of the wave field around an existing end-supported pontoon bridge from simulated data -- 3. Prediction the Seismic Demands of Tall Buildings Using An Adaptive Force-based Multi-mode Pushover Analysis -- 4. Ambient vibration testing of a 3-storey substandard RC building at different levels of structural…
Part – I: Introduction to Landslide Dynamics -- 1. Mass Wasting: An Overview -- 2. Dump Slope Stability -- 3. Shear Strength Behaviour of Jointed Rock Masses -- 4. Rockfall: A Specific Case of Landslide -- Part – II: Landslide Monitoring and Prediction -- 5. Study of Jointed and Weathered Rock Slopes through the Innovative Approach of Infrared Thermography -- 6. Ground Based Real Time Monit…