Introduction -- 1. Global and Regional variability of Tropical Cyclone-induced thermocline Warming -- 2. How has the expansion of the Tropics affected Tropical Cyclogensis? -- 3. Current and Future Cyclone Activity in High-resolution Global Model Ensemble Simulations -- 4. Tropical Cyclone Rainfall Changes in a Warmer Climate -- 5. Forecasting Catastrophe Losses in a Changing Climate -- Conclus…
Introduction -- History of eruptions -- Current activity -- Monitoring of Volcán de Colima -- Seismic studies -- Geophysical monitoring -- Geochemical studies -- Modelling the eruptive process -- Risk evaluation -- Civil Protection and the local society.This book represents a comprehensive coverage of the current state of knowledge of Volcán de Colima: its history, its eruptive mechanism, the…
International Consortium on Landslides -- ICL History and Activities -- International Programme on Landslides -- Landslide Investigation in Machu Picchu World Heritage, Cusco, Peru (C101-1) -- Preliminary Remarks on Monitoring, Geomorphological Evolution and Slope Stability of Inca Citadel of Machu Picchu (C101-1) -- Geomorphological Investigations at Machu Picchu, Peru (C101-1) -- The Applicat…
Part I: State of Research, Concepts and Methods -- Historical Disaster Experiences: First Steps towards a Comparative and Transcultural History of Disasters across Asia and Europe in the Pre-industrial Era -- Living with Hazard: Disaster Subcultures, Disaster Cultures and Risk-Mitigating Strategies -- Part II: Materiality of Disasters: Natural Impact, Social Experience -- Several Natural Disast…
Chapter 1: The METROPOLE Project: An Integrated Framework to Analyse Local Decision Making and Adaptive Capacity to Large-Scale Environmental Change: Decision making and adaptation to sea level rise in Santos, Brazil(Marengo) -- Chapter 2: Patterns of evolution of frontal systems along the South-Southeastern Brazilian Coast(Harari) -- Chapter 3: Patterns of extreme precipitation in Santos(Nunes…
Introduction.-Overview of Tsunami -- Propagation of Tsunami and Seismic Wave -- Earthquake -- Tsunami Generation -- Propagation Simulation -- Epilogue.This book introduces a framework of tsunami modelling from generation to propagation, aimed at application to the new observation started in Japan after the devastating tsunami of the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake. About 150 seismic and tsunami sens…
Part I: Sundarbans - A Dynamic Ecosystem Meddling with Environment -- Chapter 1. Sundarbans - A Dynamic Ecosystem Meddling with Environment (H.S.Sen and Dipankar Ghorai) -- Chapter 2. Sundarbans a Dynamic Ecosystem: An Overview of Opportunities, Threats and Tasks (Shafi Noor Islam) -- Part II: Societal Transformation and Livelihood Options -- Chapter 3. Transformation of the Sundarbans Eco-regi…
Identification and assessment of different geo-environmental problems -- Remediation for geo-environmental problems -- Characterization of geomaterials -- The behavior of soils under dynamic loading -- Recent studies on expansive soils -- Improvement of physical and mechanical properties of soils -- Analytical and numerical modeling of geo-structures -- Assessments of mass movement based geohaz…
Part 1 – Overview on volcanic unrest -- Significance of unrest -- Past experiences -- Part 2 - Geophysical and geochemical insights on unrest and precursory activity -- Volcano Seismology: detecting unrest in wiggly lines -- Volcano geodesy and multiparameter investigations -- Volcanic gases and low temperature volcanic fluids -- MONITORING CAPACITY: obvious and hidden problems -- Part 3 – …