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Dating torrential processes on fans and cones : methods and their application for hazard and risk assessment / / Michelle Schneuwly-Bollschweiler, Markus Stoffel, Florian Rudolf-Miklau, editors
| Dating torrential processes on fans and cones : methods and their application for hazard and risk assessment / / Michelle Schneuwly-Bollschweiler, Markus Stoffel, Florian Rudolf-Miklau, editors |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2013.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dordrecht ; ; New York, : Springer Science+Business Media, 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (438 p.) |
| Disciplina | 551 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
Schneuwly-BollschweilerMichelle
StoffelMarkus Rudolf-MiklauFlorian |
| Collana | Advances in global change research |
| Soggetto topico |
Hazard mitigation
Flood damage Alluvial fans |
| ISBN |
1-283-52986-6
9786613842312 94-007-4336-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Dating Past Events on Fans and Cones – An Introduction -- 2. Processes of Sediment Supply to Alluvial Fans and Debris Cones -- 3. Susceptibility and Triggers for Debris Flows: Emergence, Loading, Release and Entrainment -- 4. Sediment Transport Processes -- 5. Debris-Flow Runout and Deposition on the Fan -- 6. Events on Fans and Cones: Recurrence Interval and Magnitude -- 7. Silent Witnesses For Torrential Processes -- 8. Assessment of Past Torrential Events Through Historical Sources -- 9. The Use of Airborne Laser Swath Mapping on Fans And Cones: An Example from the Colorado Front Range -- 10. Dendrogeomorphology – Tracking Past Events with Tree Rings -- 11. Tree-Ring Based Record of Debris-Flow Dynamics and Triggering Rain Storms at Ritigraben (Swiss Alps) Since AD 1570 -- 12. Vegetation Analysis on Composite Debris Cones -- 13. Using Age of Colonizing Douglas-Fir for the Dating of Young Geomorphic Surfaces – A Case Study -- 14. Lichenometric Dating of Debris Avalanche Deposits with an Example from the French Alps -- 15. Lake Sediments as Archives of Recurrence Rates and Intensities of Past Flood Events -- 16. Dating Fan Deposits with Cosmogenic Nuclides -- 17. Radiocarbon Dating: Alluvial Fan / Debris Cone Evolution and Hazards -- 18. Luminescence Dating of Alluvial Fans and Cones -- 19. Timing The Interface Between Mass Wasting and Fluvial Processes with OSL -- 20. Debris-Flow Monitoring in Italy -- 21. Documentation of Torrential Events -- 22. Rainfall Thresholds for Possible Occurrence of Shallow Landslides and Debris Flows in Italy -- 23. Hazard Assessment -- 24. Dealing With Natural Hazard Risks In Switzerland – The Influence Of Hazard Mapping On Risk-Based Decision Making -- 25. Hazard Mapping and Land-Use Planning – A Swiss Perspective -- 26. Design Criteria for Torrential Barriers -- 27. Forecasting, Early Warning and Event Management: Non-Structural Protection Measures for Flash Floods and Debris Flows -- 28. Climate Research and Adaptation Strategies – Examples from the European Alps -- 29. Dating Methods Overview: Checklist for Practitioners -- 30. Summary and Outlook. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910437952703321 |
| Dordrecht ; ; New York, : Springer Science+Business Media, 2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Flood Risk in the Upper Vistula Basin / / edited by Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz, Markus Stoffel, Tadeusz Niedźwiedź, Bartłomiej Wyżga
| Flood Risk in the Upper Vistula Basin / / edited by Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz, Markus Stoffel, Tadeusz Niedźwiedź, Bartłomiej Wyżga |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2016.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (422 p.) |
| Disciplina | 551.489011 |
| Collana | GeoPlanet: Earth and Planetary Sciences |
| Soggetto topico |
Geophysics
Hydrogeology Natural disasters Geology—Statistical methods Environmental management Climate change Geophysics/Geodesy Natural Hazards Quantitative Geology Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management Climate Change Management and Policy |
| ISBN | 3-319-41923-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Tatra Mountains and their northern foothills – a guided tour -- Floods in mountainous basins -- Flood risk in various spatial scales -- Flood generation mechanisms and changes in principal drivers -- Methods to assess large wood-related flood risk in Polish Carpathian watercourses of different size -- Results of the modelling of wood transport phenomena in the Czarny Dunajec -- Modelling hydraulic parameters of flood flows for a Polish Carpathian River subjected to variable human impacts -- Climatic track. Changes in temperature and precipitation -- Change in circulation patterns -- Changes in streamflow -- Deciphering information from tree data -- Floods in Upper Vistula Basin from palaeoperspective -- Projections in climate (temperature and precipitation) and river discharge -- Downscaling and bias correction for the region -- Flood risk management in the Upper Vistula Basin in perspective: traditional versus alternative measures -- Flood risk management and flood risk governance arrangements -- Human dimension of flood management in the Upper Vistula Basin. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910254115703321 |
| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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