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Languages : en
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Natural Disasters in European Mediterranean Countries
Author: Natural Disasters in European Mediterranean Countries
Author: National Science Foundation (U.S.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
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Natural disasters in european mediterranean countries
Author: Franco SiccardiSelected Papers from Workshop on Natural Disasters in European Mediterranean Countries
Author: Franco SiccardiPublisher:
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Category : Droughts
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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Environmental Issues in the Mediterranean
Author: John B. ThornesPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134729855
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 761
Book Description
The Mediterranean has been subject to changing human settlement and land use patterns for millennia, and has a history of human exploitation in an inherently unstable landscape. Environmental Issues in the Mediterranean reviews both physical and social aspects of this region, in relation to its environment. Ideal for students who are studying a range of environmental issues, but want to see them linked within one regional context. The book begins with an introduction to the Mediterranean region, its history, physical and human geography and its environmental problems. It then goes on to examine: * The Dynamic Environment - climate variables and fluctuations, vegetation, the hydrological cycle of the basin and its watershed, processes of erosion, fire and the Mediterranean Sea *The Human Impact on the Environment - prehistoric and historic land use, traditional agriculture, rural and urban settlement and use of mineral resources * The Mediterranean Environment Under Increasing Pressure - the present human landscape, changes in agriculture in the 20th century, the impact of depopulation, pollution, water resources, desertification and potential climatic change. It then concludes with a discussion of the region's on-going environmental issues of water resources, land degradation, agricultural intensification and tourism, and considers how these can be approached using management techniques and national and regional policies.
Coping with Floods
Author: Giuseppe RossiPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401110980
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Floods are natural hazards whose effects can deeply affect the economic and environmental equilibria of a region. Quality of life of people living in areas close to rivers depends on both the risk that a flood would occur and the reliability of flood forecast, warning and control systems. Tools for forecasting and mitigating floods have been developed through research in the recent past. Two innovations currently influence flood hazard mitigation, after many decades of lack of significant progress: they are the development of new technologies for real-time flood forecast and warning (based on weather radars and satellites) and a shift from structural to non-structural flood control measures, due to increased awareness of the importance of protecting the environment and the adverse impacts of hydraulic works on it. This book is a review of research progress booked in the improvements of forecast capability and the control of floods. Mostly the book presents the results of recent research in hydrology, modern techniques of real-time forecast and warning, and ways of controlling floods for smaller impacts on the environment. A number of case studies of floods in different geographical areas are also presented. Scientists and specialists working in fields of hydrology, environmental protection and hydraulic engineering will appreciate this book for its theoretical and practical content.
Index of Conference Proceedings
Author: British Library. Document Supply CentrePublisher:
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Category : Conference proceedings
Languages : en
Pages : 870
Book Description
A Selected Annotated Bibliography of Recent ... Natural Hazards Publications
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Category : Hazardous geographic environments
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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Prediction and Perception of Natural Hazards
Author: J. NemecPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401581908
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
This collection of articles provides a unique overview of the state of the science in the prediction of and response to natural disaster events. The uniqueness of this volume is that it comprises more than just the physical science perspective. For each natural hazard included in this text, social scientists have provided research summaries of how public perceptions are related to the actions that are likely to be undertaken when people are confronted with information about the existence of a natural hazard threat. In this book the reader can find a truly international characterization of both hazard perception and prediction. The American and European contributors provide state-of-the-science overviews of empirically-based research knowledge that expands beyond any national boundaries. This approach has resulted in broader understanding of what is currently known about predicting natural hazard events and predicting how those events, or warnings of them, will be responded to by different types of societies.
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