Overview
- Introduces a comprehensive approach for disaster risk evaluation
- Includes numerous examples and case studies of disasters and risk evaluation
- Enhances understanding through superb illustrations, graphs and charts
- Identifies early warning systems for various types of hazards
- Provides working examples of theoretical concepts
Part of the book series: Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research (NTHR, volume 49)
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About this book
As readers will acknowledge, today the distinction between natural and technological hazards is becoming blurred and a new concept of NATECH hazards is evolving. For permanent hazards (such as tides, wind waves, coastal erosion and climate change) routine predictions are made, whereas for evanescent hazards (including droughts, sea level rise, and coastal subsidence), monitoring of various parameters is the norm. Only for episodic hazards (for example hurricanes, winter storms, tsunamis, and river floods), early warning systems are used, with varying degrees of success.
The book explores how, for certain episodic hazards liketornadoes, landslides, forest fires, snow avalanches, and volcanic eruptions, the early warning systems are still in various stages of development. Readers will gain knowledge of theoretical and practical concepts of risk evaluation which assist in better understanding of disaster dynamics, and readers will become better equipped in quantification of disaster risk and vulnerability. The author explains how risk reduction initiatives, taking into account stakeholders’ participation and perception, can provide a roadmap to building resilient communities and cities.
This book will be useful not only to practitioners of disaster management but also to research scholars and graduate students. It is highly readable and will appeal more broadly too, to all those who are interested in the very latest thinking on, and expert analysis of, hazards and disasters.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Natural Disasters and Risk Management in Canada
Book Subtitle: An Introduction
Authors: Nirupama Agrawal
Series Title: Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1283-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V., part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1281-9Published: 10 April 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1641-1Published: 10 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-94-024-1283-3Published: 27 March 2018
Series ISSN: 1878-9897
Series E-ISSN: 2213-6959
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 366
Number of Illustrations: 72 b/w illustrations, 140 illustrations in colour
Topics: Natural Hazards, Physical Geography, Earth System Sciences, Popular Science in Nature and Environment