Volcanic hazards, risks and disasters

Volcanic Hazards, Risks, and Disasters provides you with the latest scientific developments in volcano and volcanic research, including causality, impacts, preparedness, risk analysis, planning, response, recovery, and the economics of loss and remediation. It takes a geoscientific approach to the t...

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Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam Elsevier [2015]
Series:Hazards and disasters series (Elsevier)
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Table of Contents:
  • Global distribution of active volcanoes
  • Basaltic lava flow hazard
  • Impacts from volcanic ash fall
  • Volcanic ash hazard and aviation risk
  • Pyroclastic density current hazards and risk
  • Lahars at Cotopaxi and Tungurahua Volcanoes, Ecuador: highlights from stratigraphy and observation records and related downstream hazards
  • In situ volcano monitoring: present and future
  • Using multiple data sets to populate probabilistic volcanic event trees
  • Operational short-term volcanic hazard analysis: methods and perspectives
  • Human and structural vulnerability to volcanic processes
  • Cost : benefit analysis in volcanic risk
  • Volcanic risks and insurance
  • Extreme volcanic risks 1: Mexico City
  • Extreme volcanic risks 2: Mount Fuji
  • Volcanic gas and aerosol hazards from a future laki-type eruption in Iceland
  • Explosive super-eruptions and potential global impacts
  • Integration of European volcano infrastructure
  • Integrated monitoring of Japanese volcanoes
  • Integrating efforts in Latin America: Asociación Latinoamericana de Volcanologia (ALVO)