LEADER 04565nam 22006255 450 001 9910299383203321 005 20200630194547.0 010 $a94-024-1283-2 024 7 $a10.1007/978-94-024-1283-3 035 $a(CKB)4100000002892579 035 $a(DE-He213)978-94-024-1283-3 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5577127 035 $a(PPN)225548429 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000002892579 100 $a20180327d2018 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aNatural Disasters and Risk Management in Canada $eAn Introduction /$fby Nirupama Agrawal 205 $a1st ed. 2018. 210 1$aDordrecht :$cSpringer Netherlands :$cImprint: Springer,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (XIX, 366 p. 212 illus., 140 illus. in color.) 225 1 $aAdvances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research,$x1878-9897 ;$v49 311 $a94-024-1281-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction to NATECH hazards -- Permanent Hazards -- Evanescent Hazards -- Episodic Hazards ? large scale -- Episodic Hazards ? small scale -- NATECH Hazards -- Mitigation through early warning ? Developed Systems -- Mitigation through early warning ? Developing Systems -- Disaster risk management -- Disaster Risk Models -- Risk and vulnerability assessment -- Resilient communities to reduce disaster risk. 330 $aThese chapters provide valuable and comprehensive information on a variety of hazards, including both scientific and social aspects of disasters. The work introduces the concept of large, medium and small scale hazards, and includes many useful case studies as well as working examples of theoretical concepts. As readers will acknowledge, today the distinction between natural and technological hazards is becoming blurred and a new concept of NATECH hazards is evolving. For permanent hazards (such as tides, wind waves, coastal erosion and climate change) routine predictions are made, whereas for evanescent hazards (including droughts, sea level rise, and coastal subsidence), monitoring of various parameters is the norm. Only for episodic hazards (for example hurricanes, winter storms, tsunamis, and river floods), early warning systems are used, with varying degrees of success. The book explores how, for certain episodic hazards like tornadoes, landslides, forest fires, snow avalanches, and volcanic eruptions, the early warning systems are still in various stages of development. Readers will gain knowledge of theoretical and practical concepts of risk evaluation which assist in better understanding of disaster dynamics, and readers will become better equipped in quantification of disaster risk and vulnerability. The author explains how risk reduction initiatives, taking into account stakeholders? participation and perception, can provide a roadmap to building resilient communities and cities. This book will be useful not only to practitioners of disaster management but also to research scholars and graduate students. It is highly readable and will appeal more broadly too, to all those who are interested in the very latest thinking on, and expert analysis of, hazards and disasters. 410 0$aAdvances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research,$x1878-9897 ;$v49 606 $aNatural disasters 606 $aPhysical geography 606 $aNature 606 $aEcology 606 $aNatural Hazards$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/G32000 606 $aPhysical Geography$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/J16000 606 $aEarth System Sciences$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/G35000 606 $aPopular Science in Nature and Environment$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Q16000 615 0$aNatural disasters. 615 0$aPhysical geography. 615 0$aNature. 615 0$aEcology. 615 14$aNatural Hazards. 615 24$aPhysical Geography. 615 24$aEarth System Sciences. 615 24$aPopular Science in Nature and Environment. 676 $a551 700 $aAgrawal$b Nirupama$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01060345 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910299383203321 996 $aNatural Disasters and Risk Management in Canada$92512566 997 $aUNINA