Tsunami Events and Lessons Learned : Environmental and Societal Significance - Kontar, Y.A.; Santiago-Fandiño, V.; Takahashi, T.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014)
Preface -- Foreword -- 1. The Tsunami and Earthquake in Miyagi Prefecture and Sanriku  2011-2012 - An Overview -- 2. Assessment and Modeling of  Dispersal Contamination Incoming with Submarine Groundwater Discharge (SGD) in Tsunami Affected Coastal Areas -- 3. Tsunami Inundation Modeling of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake Using Three-dimensional Building Data for Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan -- 4. Numerical Simulation of Coastal Sediment Transport by the 2011 Tohoku-oki Earthquake Tsunami -- 5. NOAA's Historical Tsunami Event Database, Raw and Processed Water Level Data, and Model Output Relevant to the 11 March 2011 Tohoku, Japan Earthquake and Tsunami -- 6. Tsunami Simulations in the Western Pacific Ocean and East China Sea from the Great Earthquakes along the Nankai-Suruga Trough -- 7. Impacts of Tsunami Events on Ecosystem Services Provided by Benthic Macro-invertebrate Assemblages of Marine Coastal Zones -- 8. Discussion about Tsunami Interaction with Fringing Coral Reef -- 9. Ecological Status of Sandy Beaches After Tsunami Events - Insights From Meiofauna Investigations After The 2011 Tohoku-Oki Tsunami, Sendai, Japan -- 10. Impact of Tsunami Inundation on Soil Salinisation - Up to one Year after the 2011 Tohoku-Oki Tsunami -- 11. Estimating the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami Wave Height and Period from Boulders' Distribution at Pakarang Cape, Thailand -- 12. A Note on Imbricated Granite Boulders on NW Penang Island, Malaysia-Tsunami or Storm Origin? -- 13. Effects of Tsunami Wave Erosion on Natural Landscapes: Examples from the 2011 Tohoku-Oki Tsunami -- 14. Concatenated Hazards: Tsunamis, Climate Change, Tropical Cyclones and Floods -- 15. Domino Effects and Industrial Risks: Integrated Probabilistic Framework - Case of Tsunamis Effects -- 16. Destruction Patterns and Mechanisms of Coastal Levees on the Sendai Bay Coast Hit by the 2011 Tsunami -- 17. Damage and Reconstruction after the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami and the 2011 Tohoku Tsunami -- 18. Tsunami-Deck: A New Concept of Tsunami Vertical Evacuation System -- 19. Identifying Evacuees' Demand of Tsunami Shelters Using Agent Based Simulation -- 20. Multiple Wave Arrivals Contribute to Damage and Tsunami Duration on the US West Coast -- 21. Improving Tsunami Resiliency: California's Tsunami Policy Working Group -- 22. Preliminary 2013 Solomon Islands Tsunami Data Report and Historical Retrospective -- 23. 2004 Tsunami in Southern Thailand, Lessons Learned for the Thai Communities -- 24. Understanding Challenges at the "Last-Mile" in developing an Effective Risk Communication to Reduce People's Vulnerability in  Context of  Tsunami Early Warning and Evacuation -- 25. The Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Aftermath: Preliminary Assessment of Carbon Footprint of Housing Reconstruction -- Index.
Keywords: Natural disasters; Environmental sciences; Marine sciences; Freshwater; Natural Hazards; Environmental Science and Engineering; Marine & Freshwater Sciences