Impacts of the 2006 Eruption of Merapi Volcano, Indonesia, on Agriculture and Infrastructure - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Impacts of the 2006 Eruption of Merapi Volcano, Indonesia, on Agriculture and Infrastructure write by T. Wilson. This book was released on 2007. Impacts of the 2006 Eruption of Merapi Volcano, Indonesia, on Agriculture and Infrastructure available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Natural Catastrophe Risk Management and Modelling
Natural Catastrophe Risk Management and Modelling - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Natural Catastrophe Risk Management and Modelling write by Kirsten Mitchell-Wallace. This book was released on 2017-04-24. Natural Catastrophe Risk Management and Modelling available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book covers both the practical and theoretical aspects of catastrophe modelling for insurance industry practitioners and public policymakers. Written by authors with both academic and industry experience it also functions as an excellent graduate-level text and overview of the field. Ours is a time of unprecedented levels of risk from both natural and anthropogenic sources. Fortunately, it is also an era of relatively inexpensive technologies for use in assessing those risks. The demand from both commercial and public interests—including (re)insurers, NGOs, global disaster management agencies, and local authorities—for sophisticated catastrophe risk assessment tools has never been greater, and contemporary catastrophe modelling satisfies that demand. Combining the latest research with detailed coverage of state-of-the-art catastrophe modelling techniques and technologies, this book delivers the knowledge needed to use, interpret, and build catastrophe models, and provides greater insight into catastrophe modelling’s enormous potential and possible limitations. The first book containing the detailed, practical knowledge needed to support practitioners as effective catastrophe risk modellers and managers Includes hazard, vulnerability and financial material to provide the only independent, comprehensive overview of the subject, accessible to students and practitioners alike Demonstrates the relevance of catastrophe models within a practical, decision-making framework and illustrates their many applications Includes contributions from many of the top names in the field, globally, from industry, academia, and government Natural Catastrophe Risk Management and Modelling: A Practitioner’s Guide is an important working resource for catastrophe modelling analysts and developers, actuaries, underwriters, and those working in compliance or regulatory functions related to catastrophe risk. It is also valuable for scientists and engineers seeking to gain greater insight into catastrophe risk management and its applications.
Natural Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction
Natural Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Natural Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction write by Carina Fearnley. This book was released on 2016-04-08. Natural Hazards and Disaster Risk Reduction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Building upon presentations given during the conference on ‘Disaster Risk Reduction for Natural Hazards: Putting Research into Practice’, held at University College London in November 2009, the articles collected in this book examine how natural hazards research is accessed and used by practitioners and decision-makers, and conversely, how policy and practice inform research. As with the conference, this book successfully brings together views from humanitarian and development agencies, academia, business, government and funding bodies. It is rare to engage such a wide range of sectors in a discussion relating to the issues of disaster risk reduction from a natural hazards perspective, and the book captures this interaction and the resultant exchange of ideas, thus providing an insight into how stakeholders respectively undertake or engage with natural hazards research. Collectively, the articles highlight the need for greater dialogue, understanding and collaboration between all these sectors if research is to be made relevant and generate significant impact on risk reduction policy and practice. There is an urgent requirement to better understand the respective needs, ways of working, project timescales and funding mechanisms for disaster risk reduction, as well as the challenges posed by institutional and organizational structures and functions. These issues must be overcome to ensure that ultimately, and most significantly, discussions turn into positive practical actions so that research on natural hazards is relevant and applicable. The book represents a step in that journey. This book was published as a special issue of Environmental Hazards.
Agricultural Fragility Estimates for Volcanic Ash Fall Hazards
Agricultural Fragility Estimates for Volcanic Ash Fall Hazards - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Agricultural Fragility Estimates for Volcanic Ash Fall Hazards write by Thomas McDonald Wilson. This book was released on 2007. Agricultural Fragility Estimates for Volcanic Ash Fall Hazards available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Past Vulnerability
Past Vulnerability - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Past Vulnerability write by Felix Riede. This book was released on 2015-12-31. Past Vulnerability available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Volcanic eruptions can affect everything--nature, wildlife, people. From the earliest times, human resilience has been tested by this most severe environmental hazard resulting in a variety of collective responses--from despair and helplessness to endurance, increased worship of the gods, and even mass migrations. Past Vulnerability breaks new ground by examining the histories of extreme environmental events, from the resent eruptions of Mount Merapi in Central Java to the prehistoric Toba supervolcanic eruption 74,000 years ago on the island of Sumatra. Experts from a broad and unconventional range of disciplines--from anthropology to literature studies and from archaeology to theology--discuss the impacts of volcanic eruptions in human history and prehistory. The book sets the scene for a 'palaeosocial volcanology' that complements and extends current approaches to volcanic hazards in the natural and social sciences by presenting historically informed and evidence-based analyses on how traditional societies dealt with these dangers--or failed to do so.
