Community-based landslide risk reduction [[electronic resource] ] : managing disasters in small steps / / Malcolm G. Anderson, Elizabeth Holcombe
| Community-based landslide risk reduction [[electronic resource] ] : managing disasters in small steps / / Malcolm G. Anderson, Elizabeth Holcombe |
| Autore | Anderson M. G |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C., : World Bank, c2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (447 p.) |
| Disciplina | 363.34/9 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | HolcombeElizabeth |
| Soggetto topico |
Landslide hazard analysis
Landslides - Risk assessment |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
0-8213-9491-6
1-299-19251-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; CONTENTS; PREFACE; TABLES; P.1 Critical questions and decisions addressed in this book; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHORS; ABBREVIATIONS; 1 FOUNDATIONS: REDUCING LANDSLIDE RISK IN COMMUNITIES; 1.1 Key chapter elements; 1.1.1 Coverage; 1.1.2 Documents; 1.1.3 Steps and outputs; 1.1.4 Community-based aspects; 1.2 Getting started; 1.2.1 Briefing note; FIGURES; 1.1 Global landslide risk; 1.2 MoSSaiC premises, vision, and foundations; 1.2.2 What is unique about MoSSaiC?; 1.1 The key teams and tasks in MoSSaiC; 1.2.3 Guiding principles; 1.2.4 Risks and challenges
1.3 Disaster risk: context and concepts1.3.1 Global disaster risk; 1.3 Number of great natural catastrophes and associated economic losses worldwide, 1950-2010; 1.4 Normalized losses from U.S. Gulf and Atlantic hurricane damage, 1900-2005; 1.2 Categories of catastrophe; 1.5 Exposure and fatalities associated with rainfall-triggered landslides, by income class; 1.3.2 Disaster risk management; 1.6 Global rainfall-triggered landslide fatalities; 1.3 Disaster risk management components; 1.3.3 Recent influences on disaster risk management policy and implications for MoSSaiC 1.7 Disaster risk management options1.8 Societal landslide risk in Hong Kong SAR, China; 1.9 International advocacy landscape for disaster risk reduction; 1.10 UN disaster response organizational framework; 1.4 Lessons learned from World Bank natural disaster projects; 1.11 Benefit-cost ratio for hurricane-proofing prevention measures for houses in Canaries and Patience, St. Lucia; 1.12 Mitigation benefit-cost ratio for wood frame building in Canaries, St. Lucia, with and without the effect of climate change; 1.13 Efficiency of risk management instruments and occurrence probability 1.14 Evolution of social fund objectives and activities1.3.4 Landslide risk and other development policy issues; 1.15 Population growth and urbanization drivers of landslide risk; 1.4 MoSSaiC; 1.4.1 Overview; 1.5 Percentage of owner occupancy, unauthorized housing, and squatter housing by country income group, 1990; 1.4.2 MoSSaiC: The science basis; 1.6 The foundations of MoSSaiC; 1.16 MoSSaiC architecture-integrating science, communities, and evidence; 1.17 Housing stock can reflect community vulnerability; 1.4.3 MoSSaiC: The community basis 1.18 Stakeholder connections in Guatemala City's precarious settlements, showing how money flows around, but not into, the settlements1.7 Coping mechanisms deployed by individual residents in vulnerable communities to reduce landslide risk; 1.19 Learning from community residents; 1.20 Effects of prompt and informed action; 1.8 Value of community engagement; 1.4.4 MoSSaiC: The evidence base; 1.4.5 MoSSaiC project components; 1.4.6 MoSSaiC pilots; 1.9 Basic MoSSaiC outputs and outcomes providing evidence for ex ante landslide mitigation 1.10 Broad impacts of community-based landslide risk reduction program in St. Lucia and Dominica, 2005-10 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910452559903321 |
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| Washington, D.C., : World Bank, c2013 | ||
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Community-based landslide risk reduction : : managing disasters in small steps / / Malcolm G. Anderson, Elizabeth Holcombe
| Community-based landslide risk reduction : : managing disasters in small steps / / Malcolm G. Anderson, Elizabeth Holcombe |
| Autore | Anderson M. G |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C. : , : World Bank, , c2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | pages cm |
| Disciplina | 363.34/9 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | HolcombeElizabeth |
| Soggetto topico |
Landslide hazard analysis
Landslides - Risk assessment |
| ISBN |
0-8213-9491-6
1-299-19251-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; CONTENTS; PREFACE; TABLES; P.1 Critical questions and decisions addressed in this book; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHORS; ABBREVIATIONS; 1 FOUNDATIONS: REDUCING LANDSLIDE RISK IN COMMUNITIES; 1.1 Key chapter elements; 1.1.1 Coverage; 1.1.2 Documents; 1.1.3 Steps and outputs; 1.1.4 Community-based aspects; 1.2 Getting started; 1.2.1 Briefing note; FIGURES; 1.1 Global landslide risk; 1.2 MoSSaiC premises, vision, and foundations; 1.2.2 What is unique about MoSSaiC?; 1.1 The key teams and tasks in MoSSaiC; 1.2.3 Guiding principles; 1.2.4 Risks and challenges
1.3 Disaster risk: context and concepts1.3.1 Global disaster risk; 1.3 Number of great natural catastrophes and associated economic losses worldwide, 1950-2010; 1.4 Normalized losses from U.S. Gulf and Atlantic hurricane damage, 1900-2005; 1.2 Categories of catastrophe; 1.5 Exposure and fatalities associated with rainfall-triggered landslides, by income class; 1.3.2 Disaster risk management; 1.6 Global rainfall-triggered landslide fatalities; 1.3 Disaster risk management components; 1.3.3 Recent influences on disaster risk management policy and implications for MoSSaiC 1.7 Disaster risk management options1.8 Societal landslide risk in Hong Kong SAR, China; 1.9 International advocacy landscape for disaster risk reduction; 1.10 UN disaster response organizational framework; 1.4 Lessons learned from World Bank natural disaster projects; 1.11 Benefit-cost ratio for hurricane-proofing prevention measures for houses in Canaries and Patience, St. Lucia; 1.12 Mitigation benefit-cost ratio for wood frame building in Canaries, St. Lucia, with and without the effect of climate change; 1.13 Efficiency of risk management instruments and occurrence probability 1.14 Evolution of social fund objectives and activities1.3.4 Landslide risk and other development policy issues; 1.15 Population growth and urbanization drivers of landslide risk; 1.4 MoSSaiC; 1.4.1 Overview; 1.5 Percentage of owner occupancy, unauthorized housing, and squatter housing by country income group, 1990; 1.4.2 MoSSaiC: The science basis; 1.6 The foundations of MoSSaiC; 1.16 MoSSaiC architecture-integrating science, communities, and evidence; 1.17 Housing stock can reflect community vulnerability; 1.4.3 MoSSaiC: The community basis 1.18 Stakeholder connections in Guatemala City's precarious settlements, showing how money flows around, but not into, the settlements1.7 Coping mechanisms deployed by individual residents in vulnerable communities to reduce landslide risk; 1.19 Learning from community residents; 1.20 Effects of prompt and informed action; 1.8 Value of community engagement; 1.4.4 MoSSaiC: The evidence base; 1.4.5 MoSSaiC project components; 1.4.6 MoSSaiC pilots; 1.9 Basic MoSSaiC outputs and outcomes providing evidence for ex ante landslide mitigation 1.10 Broad impacts of community-based landslide risk reduction program in St. Lucia and Dominica, 2005-10 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779427203321 |
Anderson M. G
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| Washington, D.C. : , : World Bank, , c2013 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Landslide hazard and risk [[electronic resource] /] / editors, Thomas Glade, Malcolm Anderson, Michael Crozier
| Landslide hazard and risk [[electronic resource] /] / editors, Thomas Glade, Malcolm Anderson, Michael Crozier |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, West Sussex, England ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : J. Wiley, c2005 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (834 p.) |
| Disciplina |
551.3/07
551.307 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
GladeThomas
AndersonMalcolm CrozierMichael J |
| Soggetto topico |
Landslides - Risk assessment
Landslides - Social aspects Slopes (Soil mechanics) |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-280-30870-2
9786610308705 0-470-01265-X 0-470-01264-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Landslide Hazard and Risk; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; 1 Landslide Hazard and Risk: Issues, Concepts and Approach; PART 1 CONCEPTUAL MODELS IN APPROACHING LANDSLIDE RISK; 2 The Nature of Landslide Hazard Impact; 3 A Review of Scale Dependency in Landslide Hazard and Risk Analysis; 4 Systematic Procedures of Landslide Hazard Mapping for Risk Assessment Using Spatial Prediction Models; 5 Vulnerability to Landslides; PART 2 EVALUATION OF RISK
6 Landslide Risk Perception, Knowledge and Associated Risk Management: Case Studies and General Lessons from Glacier National Park, Montana, USA7 Cultural Consideration in Landslide Risk Perception; 8 Reply of Insurance Industry to Landslide Risk; 9 The Role of Administrative Bodies in Landslide Risk Assessment; 10 Addressing Landslide Hazards: Towards a Knowledge Management Perspective; PART 3 MANAGEMENT OF LANDSLIDE RISK; 11 Management Frameworks for Landslide Hazard and Risk: Issues and Options 12 Reducing Landslide Hazards and Risk in the United States: The Role of the US Geological Survey13 Basic Data and Decision Support for Landslide Management: A Conceptual Framework; 14 Instability Management from Policy to Practice; 15 Geomorphological Mapping to Assess Landslide Risk: Concepts, Methods and Applications in the Umbria Region of Central Italy; 16 Remote Sensing of Landslides; 17 The Rise and Fall of a Debris-flow Warning System for the San Francisco Bay Region, California; 18 Reforestation Schemes to Manage Regional Landslide Risk 19 Geotechnical Structures for Landslide Risk ReductionPART 4 'END-TO-END SOLUTIONS' FOR LANDSLIDE RISK ASSESSMENT; 20 Towards the Development of a Landslide Risk Assessment for Rural Roads in Nepal; 21 Quantitative Landslide Risk Assessment of Cairns, Australia; 22 The Story of Quantified Risk and its Place in Slope Safety Policy in Hong Kong; 23 Rockfall Risk Management in High-density Urban Areas. The Andorran Experience; 24 Landslide Risk Assessment in Italy 25 An Initial Approach to Identifying Slope Stability Controls in Southern Java and to Providing Community-based Landslide Warning InformationPART 5 SYNOPSIS; 26 Landslide Hazard and Risk - Concluding Comment and Perspectives; Glossary; Thematic Index; Locations/regions; COLOUR PLATE SECTION |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910145037403321 |
| Chichester, West Sussex, England ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : J. Wiley, c2005 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Landslide hazard and risk [[electronic resource] /] / editors, Thomas Glade, Malcolm Anderson, Michael Crozier
| Landslide hazard and risk [[electronic resource] /] / editors, Thomas Glade, Malcolm Anderson, Michael Crozier |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, West Sussex, England ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : J. Wiley, c2005 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (834 p.) |
| Disciplina |
551.3/07
551.307 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
GladeThomas
AndersonMalcolm CrozierMichael J |
| Soggetto topico |
Landslides - Risk assessment
Landslides - Social aspects Slopes (Soil mechanics) |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-280-30870-2
9786610308705 0-470-01265-X 0-470-01264-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Landslide Hazard and Risk; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; 1 Landslide Hazard and Risk: Issues, Concepts and Approach; PART 1 CONCEPTUAL MODELS IN APPROACHING LANDSLIDE RISK; 2 The Nature of Landslide Hazard Impact; 3 A Review of Scale Dependency in Landslide Hazard and Risk Analysis; 4 Systematic Procedures of Landslide Hazard Mapping for Risk Assessment Using Spatial Prediction Models; 5 Vulnerability to Landslides; PART 2 EVALUATION OF RISK
6 Landslide Risk Perception, Knowledge and Associated Risk Management: Case Studies and General Lessons from Glacier National Park, Montana, USA7 Cultural Consideration in Landslide Risk Perception; 8 Reply of Insurance Industry to Landslide Risk; 9 The Role of Administrative Bodies in Landslide Risk Assessment; 10 Addressing Landslide Hazards: Towards a Knowledge Management Perspective; PART 3 MANAGEMENT OF LANDSLIDE RISK; 11 Management Frameworks for Landslide Hazard and Risk: Issues and Options 12 Reducing Landslide Hazards and Risk in the United States: The Role of the US Geological Survey13 Basic Data and Decision Support for Landslide Management: A Conceptual Framework; 14 Instability Management from Policy to Practice; 15 Geomorphological Mapping to Assess Landslide Risk: Concepts, Methods and Applications in the Umbria Region of Central Italy; 16 Remote Sensing of Landslides; 17 The Rise and Fall of a Debris-flow Warning System for the San Francisco Bay Region, California; 18 Reforestation Schemes to Manage Regional Landslide Risk 19 Geotechnical Structures for Landslide Risk ReductionPART 4 'END-TO-END SOLUTIONS' FOR LANDSLIDE RISK ASSESSMENT; 20 Towards the Development of a Landslide Risk Assessment for Rural Roads in Nepal; 21 Quantitative Landslide Risk Assessment of Cairns, Australia; 22 The Story of Quantified Risk and its Place in Slope Safety Policy in Hong Kong; 23 Rockfall Risk Management in High-density Urban Areas. The Andorran Experience; 24 Landslide Risk Assessment in Italy 25 An Initial Approach to Identifying Slope Stability Controls in Southern Java and to Providing Community-based Landslide Warning InformationPART 5 SYNOPSIS; 26 Landslide Hazard and Risk - Concluding Comment and Perspectives; Glossary; Thematic Index; Locations/regions; COLOUR PLATE SECTION |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996211785103316 |
| Chichester, West Sussex, England ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : J. Wiley, c2005 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Landslide hazard and risk [e-book] / editors, Thomas Glade, Malcolm Anderson, Michael Crozier
| Landslide hazard and risk [e-book] / editors, Thomas Glade, Malcolm Anderson, Michael Crozier |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, West Sussex, England ; Hoboken, NJ : J. Wiley, c2005 |
| Descrizione fisica |
xxi, 802 p. : ill., map ; 26 cm.
online resource (xxi, 802 p) : ill., map |
| Disciplina | 551.307 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
Glade, Thomas
Anderson, Malcolm Crozier, Michael J. |
| Soggetto topico |
Landslides - Risk assessment
Landslides - Social aspects Slopes (Soil mechanics) |
| ISBN | 9780470012659 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNISALENTO-991003955049707536 |
| Chichester, West Sussex, England ; Hoboken, NJ : J. Wiley, c2005 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. del Salento | ||
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Landslide hazard and risk / / editors, Thomas Glade, Malcolm Anderson, Michael Crozier
| Landslide hazard and risk / / editors, Thomas Glade, Malcolm Anderson, Michael Crozier |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, West Sussex, England ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : J. Wiley, c2005 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (834 p.) |
| Disciplina | 551.3/07 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
GladeThomas
AndersonMalcolm CrozierMichael J |
| Soggetto topico |
Landslides - Risk assessment
Landslides - Social aspects Slopes (Soil mechanics) |
| ISBN |
9786610308705
9781280308703 1280308702 9780470012659 047001265X 9780470012642 0470012641 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Landslide Hazard and Risk; Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; 1 Landslide Hazard and Risk: Issues, Concepts and Approach; PART 1 CONCEPTUAL MODELS IN APPROACHING LANDSLIDE RISK; 2 The Nature of Landslide Hazard Impact; 3 A Review of Scale Dependency in Landslide Hazard and Risk Analysis; 4 Systematic Procedures of Landslide Hazard Mapping for Risk Assessment Using Spatial Prediction Models; 5 Vulnerability to Landslides; PART 2 EVALUATION OF RISK
6 Landslide Risk Perception, Knowledge and Associated Risk Management: Case Studies and General Lessons from Glacier National Park, Montana, USA7 Cultural Consideration in Landslide Risk Perception; 8 Reply of Insurance Industry to Landslide Risk; 9 The Role of Administrative Bodies in Landslide Risk Assessment; 10 Addressing Landslide Hazards: Towards a Knowledge Management Perspective; PART 3 MANAGEMENT OF LANDSLIDE RISK; 11 Management Frameworks for Landslide Hazard and Risk: Issues and Options 12 Reducing Landslide Hazards and Risk in the United States: The Role of the US Geological Survey13 Basic Data and Decision Support for Landslide Management: A Conceptual Framework; 14 Instability Management from Policy to Practice; 15 Geomorphological Mapping to Assess Landslide Risk: Concepts, Methods and Applications in the Umbria Region of Central Italy; 16 Remote Sensing of Landslides; 17 The Rise and Fall of a Debris-flow Warning System for the San Francisco Bay Region, California; 18 Reforestation Schemes to Manage Regional Landslide Risk 19 Geotechnical Structures for Landslide Risk ReductionPART 4 'END-TO-END SOLUTIONS' FOR LANDSLIDE RISK ASSESSMENT; 20 Towards the Development of a Landslide Risk Assessment for Rural Roads in Nepal; 21 Quantitative Landslide Risk Assessment of Cairns, Australia; 22 The Story of Quantified Risk and its Place in Slope Safety Policy in Hong Kong; 23 Rockfall Risk Management in High-density Urban Areas. The Andorran Experience; 24 Landslide Risk Assessment in Italy 25 An Initial Approach to Identifying Slope Stability Controls in Southern Java and to Providing Community-based Landslide Warning InformationPART 5 SYNOPSIS; 26 Landslide Hazard and Risk - Concluding Comment and Perspectives; Glossary; Thematic Index; Locations/regions; COLOUR PLATE SECTION |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9911020276903321 |
| Chichester, West Sussex, England ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : J. Wiley, c2005 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Landslides : global risk preparedness / / Kyoji Sassa, ... [et al.] ; editors
| Landslides : global risk preparedness / / Kyoji Sassa, ... [et al.] ; editors |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2013.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Heidelberg, : Springer, 2012, c2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (383 p.) |
| Disciplina | 551.307 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | SassaKyoji |
| Soggetto topico |
Landslide hazard analysis
Landslides - Risk assessment Landslides - Safety measures |
| ISBN |
1-283-61183-X
9786613924285 3-642-22087-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | IPL Programme -- Joint Coordinating Projects -- Projects by World Centres of Excellence -- Risk Assessment Technology -- Risk Management and Capacity Development. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910437941203321 |
| Heidelberg, : Springer, 2012, c2013 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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