Mountain Risks: From Prediction to Management and Governance /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2014.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2014. |
| Series: | Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research,
34 |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- 1. Introduction: The components of risk governance
- Part I : New techniques for assessing mass movement hazards
- 2. Innovative techniques for the detection and characterization of the kinematics of slow-moving landslides
- 3. Innovative techniques for the characterization of the morphology, geometry and hydrological features of slow-moving landslides
- 4. Techniques for the modelling of the process systems in slow and fast-moving landslides
- Part II: Methodologies to assess the impact of the natural hazards on the society in terms of risks
- 5. Methods for debris flow hazard and risk assessment
- 6. Advances in methodologies for rockfall hazard and risk assessments
- 7. Medium-scale multi-hazard risk assessment of gravitational processes
- 8. Methods for the characterization of the vulnerability of elements at risk
- 9. The importance of the lessons learnt from past disasters for risk assessment
- Part III: The response of the Society towards the problems of hazard and risk
- 10. Disaster mitigation by spatial planning
- 11. Disaster mitigation by corrective and protection measures
- 12. The relevance of legal aspects, risk cultures and insurance possibilities for risk management
- 13. The relevance of Early-Warning Systems and evacuation plans for risk management
- 14. Risk assessment: Establishing practical thresholds for acceptable and tolerable risks
- 15. The use of geo-information and modern visualization tools for risk communication
- Index.