John Rundle, William Klein, Don Turcotte

Reduction And Predictability Of Natural Disasters (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Within the past five years, the international community has recognized that it may be possible, through programs of systematic study, to devise means to reduce and mitigate the occurrence of a variety of devastating natural hazards. Among these disasters are earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods, and landslides. The importance of these studies is underscored by the fact that within fifty years, more than a third of the world's population will live in seismically and volcanically active zones. The International Council of Scientific Unions, together with UNESCO and the World Bank, have therefore endorsed the 1990s as the International Decade of Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR), and are planning a variety of programs to address problems related to the predictability and mitigation of these disasters, particularly in third-world countries. Parallel programs have begun in a number of U.S. agencies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 323
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429961090
• Artikelnr.: 56839465

Autorenporträt

John Rundle, Don Turcotte

Inhaltsangabe

Preface /J. B. Rundle, B. Klein, and D. L. Turcotte
Societal Effects of Natural Disasters
Scaling Laws for Natural Disaster Fatalities /S. F. Nishenko and C. C. Barton
Global Fatalities from Earthquakes in the Pt 2000 Years: Prognosis for the Next /R. Bilham
Floods and Landslides
Diffusion
Limited Aggregation as a Paradigm for Modeling Dynamical Processes /L. M. Sander
A Dynamical Systems Approach to Flood
Frequency Forecasting /D. L. Turcotte and K. Haselton
Multiplicative Cascades and Spatial Variability in Rainfall, River Networks, and Floods /V. K. Gupta and E. Wayrnire
Inference for a Channel Network Model and Implications for Flood Scaling /B. M. Troutman
Thickness Statistics of Sedimentary Layers Generated by Gravity
Driven Flows /D. H. Rothman and J. P. Grotzinger
Earthquakes
Thoughts on Modeling and Prediction of Earthquakes /S. C. Eubank
Complexity and Earthquake Forecasting /C. C. Sammis, D. Sornette, and H. SaZeur
on the Scaling of Average Slip with Rupture Dimensions of Earthquakes /S. Gross
Rupture Characteristics , Recurrence , and Predict ability in a Slider
Block Model for Earthquakes /Ja B. Rundle. W. Klein. and S. Gross
A Comparison of Simple Eqrthquake Models:
Self
Organized Criticality vs . Intermittent P hose Locking /A . V. He rz
Spinodals and Scaling in Slider
Block Models /w. Klein, C. Ferguson, and J. B. Rundle
A Hierarchical Model for Precursory Seismic Activation /w. L Newman, D. L. Turcotte, and A. Gabrielov
Observation of Boltzmann Fluctuations in Stochastic, Massless Slider
Block Simulations /J. B. Rundle, W. Klein, and D. L. Turcotte
Prediction Studies of Earthquake Falut Models and Applicat ions to Seismic Catalogs /J. Carison
Index.