Volcanic Hazards, Risks and Disasters (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Volcanic Hazards, Risks, and Disasters provides you with the latest scientific developments in volcano and volcanic research, including causality, impacts, preparedness, risk analysis, planning, response, recovery, and the economics of loss and remediation. It takes a geoscientific approach to the topic while integrating the social and economic issues related to volcanoes and volcanic hazards and disasters. Throughout the book case studies are presented of historically relevant volcanic and seismic hazards and disasters as well as recent catastrophes, such as Chile's Puyehue volcano eruption in June 2011.

• Puts the expertise of top volcanologists, seismologists, geologists, and geophysicists selected by a world-renowned editorial board at your fingertips
• Presents you with the latest research-including case studies of prominent volcanoes and volcanic hazards and disasters-on causality, economic impacts, fatality rates, and earthquake preparedness and mitigation
• Numerous tables, maps, diagrams, illustrations, photographs, and video captures of hazardous processes support you in grasping key concepts

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
• Seitenzahl: 532
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780123964762
• Artikelnr.: 41873465

Autorenporträt

Dr. John (Jack) F. Shroder received his bachelor's degree in geology from Union College in 1961; his masters in geology from the University of Massachusetts - Amherst in 1963, and his Ph.D. in geology at the University of Utah in 1967. He has been actively pursuing research on landforms and natural resources in the high mountain environments of the Rocky Mountains, the Afghanistan Hindu Kush, and the Karakoram Himalaya of Pakistan for over a half century. His teaching specialties have been primarily geomorphology, but also physical and historical geology and several other courses at the University of Nebraska at Omaha where he was the founding professor of the Geology major. While there he was instrumental in founding the Center for Afghanistan Studies in 1972, and he was the lead geologist for the Bethsaida Archaeological Project in Israel in the 1990s. He taught geology as an NSF-, USAID, and Fulbright-sponsored professor at Kabul University in 1977-78, as well as a Fulbrightaward to Peshawar University in 1983-84. He has some 63 written or edited books to his credit and more than 200 professional papers, with emphases on landslides, glaciers, flooding, and mineral resources in Afghanistan. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and has received Distinguished Career awards from both the Mountain and the Geomorphology Specialty Groups of the Association of American Geographers. In the recent decade as an Emeritus Professor, he served as a Trustee of the Geological Society of America Foundation where he set up a research scholarship, the Shroder Mass Movement award for masters and doctoral candidates. For the past two decades, he has been the Editor-in-Chief for the Developments in Earth Surface Processes book series of Elsevier Publishing, as well as the 10-volumes of the Treatise on Geomorphology, and the Hazards, Risks, and Disasters book series, both in second editions. Rec

ently, Dr. Shroder was ranked among the top 2 percent of researchers worldwide by the October study conducted by Stanford University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Volcanoes and plate tectonics; Volcanic form and structure; Types and characteristics of central eruptions and extended lateral eruptions; Physics of volcanism; Historical eruptions; Volcano magnitudes and impacts; Volcanic products: volatiles; Volcanic products; pyroclastics; Volcanic products: Lava flows and shallow intrusions; Volcanic products: Craters, calderas, and super-eruptions; Volcanoes and water/Lahars; Paleoeruptions and dating; Volcanic stratigraphy and tephrochronology; Archaeological evidence of volcanism; Volcanoes and mythology; Volcanic hazard and prediction (periodicities); Field investigation techniques; Community coping strategies.