Risk and Uncertainty Assessment for Natural Hazards (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Rougier, Jonathan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Assessment of risk and uncertainty is crucial for natural hazard risk management, facilitating risk communication and informing strategies to successfully mitigate our society's vulnerability to natural disasters. Written by some of the world's leading experts, this book provides a state-of-the-art overview of risk and uncertainty assessment in natural hazards. It presents the core statistical concepts using clearly defined terminology applicable across all types of natural hazards and addresses the full range of sources of uncertainty, the role of expert judgement and the practice of uncertainty elicitation. The core of the book provides detailed coverage of all the main hazard types and concluding chapters address the wider societal context of risk management. This is an invaluable compendium for academic researchers and professionals working in the fields of natural hazards science, risk assessment and management and environmental science, and will be of interest to anyone involved in natural hazards policy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781107301245
• Artikelnr.: 37868168

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors; Preface; 1. Risk and uncertainty assessment in
natural hazards Lisa J. Hill, Steve Sparks and Jonathan Rougier; 2.
Quantifying natural hazard risk Jonathan Rougier; 3. Model limitations: the
sources and implications of epistemic uncertainty Jonathan Rougier and K.
J. Beven; 4. Expert elicitation and judgment W. P. Aspinall and R. M.
Cooke; 5. Risk and uncertainty in hydrometeorological hazards T. L. Edwards
and P. G. Challenor; 6. Hydrometeorological hazards under future climate
change T. L. Edwards and P. G. Challenor; 7. Hydrological flood uncertainty
and risk research J. Freer, K. J. Beven, J. Neal, G. Schumann, J. Hall and
P. Bates; 8. Uncertainties in probabilistic seismic hazard assessment W. P.
Aspinall; 9. Landslide and avalanche hazards T. K. Hincks, W. P. Aspinall,
Steve Sparks, E. A. Holcombe and M. Kern; 10. Tsunami hazard and risk T. K.
Hincks, Steve Sparks and W. P. Aspinall; 11. Risk and uncertainty
assessment of volcanic hazards Steve Sparks, W. P. Aspinall, H. S.
Crosweller and T. K. Hincks; 12. Risk assessment and management of
wildfires T. K. Hincks, B. D. Malamud, Steve Sparks, M. J. Wooster and T.
J. Lynham; 13. Technological facilities, infrastructure and hazardous
materials, including some notes on space weather Steve Sparks, W. P.
Aspinall, N. A. Chapman, B. E. Hill, D. J. Kerridge, J. Pooley and C. A.
Taylor; 14. Statistical aspects of risk characterization in ecotoxicology
G. L. Hickey and A. Hart; 15. Social science perspectives on natural
hazards risk and uncertainty S. Cornell and M. Jackson; 16. Human responses
to natural hazard risk: considerations for improving the effectiveness of
risk management systems H. S. Crosweller and J. Wilmshurst; Index.