Landslide Hazards, Risks, and Disasters (Hazards and Disasters) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0123964520 ISBN 13: 9780123964526

Publisher: Elsevier, 2014

Synopsis

Landslides are the most costly geo-hazard in the world, and they’re often the cause or the result of other hazards and disasters such as tsunamis, earthquakes, wildfires, and volcanic eruptions. Landslide Hazards, Risks, and Disasters makes a close and detailed examination of major mass movements and provides measures for more thorough and accurate monitoring, prediction, preparedness, and prevention. It takes a geoscientific approach to the topic while also discussing the impacts human-induced causes such as deforestation, blasting, and building construction―underscoring the multi-disciplinary nature of the topic.

• Contains contributions from expert geologists, seismologists, geophysicists, and environmental scientists selected by a world-renowned editorial board
• Presents the latest research on causality, economic impacts, fatality rates, and landslide and problem soil preparedness and mitigation
• Numerous tables, maps, diagrams, illustrations, photographs, and video captures of hazardous processes
• Discusses steps for prevention and treatment of problem soils, the most expensive geo-hazard in the world

About this title

About the Authors

Dr. John (Jack) F. Shroder received his bachelor’s degree in geology from Union College in 1961; his masters in geology from the University of Massachusetts – Amherst in 1963, and his Ph.D. in geology at the University of Utah in 1967. He has been actively pursuing research on landforms and natural resources in the high mountain environments of the Rocky Mountains, the Afghanistan Hindu Kush, and the Karakoram Himalaya of Pakistan for over a half century. His teaching specialties have been primarily geomorphology, but also physical and historical geology and several other courses at the University of Nebraska at Omaha where he was the founding professor of the Geology major. While there he was instrumental in founding the Center for Afghanistan Studies in 1972, and he was the lead geologist for the Bethsaida Archaeological Project in Israel in the 1990s. He taught geology as an NSF-, USAID, and Fulbright-sponsored professor at Kabul University in 1977-78, as well as a Fulbright award to Peshawar University in 1983-84. He has some 63 written or edited books to his credit and more than 200 professional papers, with emphases on landslides, glaciers, flooding, and mineral resources in Afghanistan. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and has received Distinguished Career awards from both the Mountain and the Geomorphology Specialty Groups of the Association of American Geographers. In the recent decade as an Emeritus Professor, he served as a Trustee of the Geological Society of America Foundation where he set up a research scholarship, the Shroder Mass Movement award for masters and doctoral candidates. For the past two decades, he has been the Editor-in-Chief for the Developments in Earth Surface Processes book series of Elsevier Publishing, as well as the 10-volumes of the Treatise on Geomorphology, and the Hazards, Risks, and Disasters book series, both in second editions. Recently, Dr. Shroder was ranked among the top 2 percent of researchers worldwide by the October study conducted by Stanford University.

Tim Davies is a Professor in the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Canterbury (NZ). His research focusses on the application of geomorphology in prediction of landform response to disturbance, in particular in the context of natural hazard assessment and disaster impact reduction.

From the Back Cover

Landslide Hazards, Risks, and Disasters

Edited by Tim Davies

Landslides are one of the most costly and disruptive geo-hazards in the world, and they are often the cause or the result of other hazards and disasters such as tsunamis, earthquakes, wildfires, and volcanic eruptions. Landslide Hazards, Risks, and Disasters examines some currently active research topics in mass movement hazards and provides information for realistic monitoring, prediction, risk management, and preparedness. It takes a geoscientific approach to the topic, the objective of which is to inform strategies for reducing the impacts of future disasters by increasing societal resilience to them, and also discusses the impacts of landslides on society.

Key Features

• Contains contributions from expert geologists, seismologists, geophysicists, and environmental scientists selected by a world-renowned editorial board
• Presents the latest research on causality, impacts, and landslide preparedness and mitigation
• Numerous tables, maps, diagrams, illustrations and photographs of hazardous processes

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Edition details

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0123964520
• ISBN 13: 9780123964526
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 492
• Editor: Shroder John F., Davies Tim