Geophysical Hazards : Minimizing Risk, Maximizing Awareness - Beer, Tom.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010)
The IYPE Hazards Theme: Minimising Risk, Maximising Awareness -- The Hazards Theme of the International Year of Planet Earth -- Social Science Perspectives on Hazards and Vulnerability Science -- Focusing on the Environment and Human Security Nexus -- Communicating Geological Hazards: Educating, Training and Assisting Geoscientists in Communication Skills -- The Response of the International Scientific Community -- of a New International Research Program: Integrated Research on Disaster Risk - The Challenge of Natural and Human-Induced Environmental Hazards -- Building a University Network for Disaster Risk Reduction in sub-Saharan Africa -- Co-operation Plan on Hazards & Disasters Risk Reduction in Asia and the Pacific -- Geophysical Risk and Sustainability: Climate and Climate Change -- Closing the Gap Between Science and Practice to Reduce Human Losses in Hydro-Meteorological Disasters -- The Role of Geosciences in the Mitigation of Natural Disasters: Five Case Studies -- Geophysical Risk and Sustainability: Theory and Practice -- Seismic Hazard in India - Practical Aspects and Initiatives During IYPE -- Computational Geodynamics as a Component of Comprehensive Seismic Hazards Analysis -- Hazards in the Coastal Zones Related to Groundwater-Seawater Interaction Processes -- GeoHazards and Risks - Observation and Assessment -- Mega Tsunami of the World Oceans: Chevron Dune Formation, Micro-Ejecta, and Rapid Climate Change as the Evidence of Recent Oceanic Bolide Impacts -- Understanding Slow Deformation Before Dynamic Failure -- Landslides in Mountain Regions: Hazards, Resources and Information.
Keywords: Geophysics; Natural disasters; Climate change; Physical geography; Geophysics/Geodesy.; Natural Hazards; Climate Change; Physical Geography