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050	0	0	_aGB5014 _b.G48 2010
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245	0	0	_aGeomorphological hazards and disaster prevention / _c[edited by] Irasema Alcántara-Ayala, Andrew S. Goudie.
246	3		_aGeomorphological Hazards & Disaster Prevention
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2010.
300			_a1 online resource (xi, 291 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
505	0	0	_tRegional seismic shaking hazards in mountains / _rWilliam B. Bull -- _tVolcanic hazards and risks : a geomorphological perspective / _rJean-Claude Thouret -- _tMountain hazards / _rOlav Slaymaker -- _tReview and future challenges in snow avalanche risk analysis / _rMichael Bründl ... [et al.] -- _tLandslide hazards / _rDavid Petley -- _tCatastrophic landslides and sedimentary budgets / _rMonique Fort ... [et al.] -- Landslides and climatic change / _rLisa Borgatti and Mauro Soldati -- _tThe hazardousness of high-magnitude floods / _rAvijit Gupta -- _tFlood hazards : the context of fluvial geomorphology / _rGerardo Benito and Paul F. Hudson -- _tGeomorphology and coastal hazards / _rHarley J. Walker and Molly McGraw -- _tWeathering hazards / _rAndrew S. Goudie and Heather Viles -- _tHazards associated with karst / _rFrancisco Gutiérrez -- _tSoil erosion / _rAndrew S. Goudie and John Boardman -- _tDesertification and land degradation in arid and semi-arid regions / _rYang Xiaoping -- _tDune migration and encroachment / _rAndrew S. Goudie -- _tGIS for the assessment of risk from geomorphological hazards / _rCees J. van Westen -- _tHazard assessment for risk analysis and risk management / _rMichael Crozier and Thomas Glade -- _tVulnerability analysis in geomorphic risk assessment / _rGabi Hufschmidt and Thomas Glade -- _tGeomorphological hazards and global climate change / _rAndrew S. Goudie -- _tGeomorphic hazards and sustainable development / _rDavid Higgitt -- _tGeomorphology and disaster prevention / _rIrasema Alcántra-Alaya -- _tGeomorphology and the international agenda : concluding remarks / _rIrasema Alcántra-Alaya.
520			_aHuman activities have had a huge impact on the environment and landscape, through industrialisation and land-use change, leading to climate change, deforestation, desertification, land degradation, and air and water pollution. These impacts are strongly linked to the occurrence of geomorphological hazards, such as floods, landslides, snow avalanches, soil erosion, and others. Geomorphological work includes not only the understanding but the mapping and modelling of Earth's surface processes, many of which directly affect human societies. In addition, geomorphologists are becoming increasingly involved with the dimensions of societal problem solving, through vulnerability analysis, hazard and risk assessment and management. The work of geomorphologists is therefore of prime importance for disaster prevention. An international team of geomorphologists have contributed their expertise to this volume, making this a scientifically rigorous work for a wide audience of geomorphologists and other Earth scientists, including those involved in environmental science, hazard and risk assessment, management and policy.
650		0	_aNatural disasters.
650		0	_aGeomorphology.
650		0	_aHazardous geographic environments.
650		0	_aHazardous geographic environments _xRisk assessment.
650		0	_aNatural disasters _xPrevention.
700	1		_aAlcántara, Irasema, _eeditor.
700	1		_aGoudie, Andrew, _eeditor.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9780521769259
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511807527
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