Natural Hazards State-of-the-Art at the End of the Second Millennium
This special volume contains a selection of papers that were presented as part of the Seventh International Symposium on Natural and Man-Made Hazards (HAZARDS-98), held in Chania, Crete Island, Greece, during May 1998. The Symposium attracted broad international interest because many cases of natura...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2000, 2000
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2000 |
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Table of Contents:
- Regional Air Quality Modelling in Canada — Applications for Policy and Real-Time Prediction
- The 1997 El Niño, Indonesian Forest Fires and the Malaysian Smoke Problem: A Deadly Combination of Natural and Man-Made Hazard
- Three-Dimensional Simulation of Water Circulation in the Java Sea: Influence of Wind Waves on Surface and Bottom Stresses
- Tidal Changes and Coastal Hazards: Past, Present and Future
- Tsunamis Observed on and Near the Turkish Coast
- Post-Tsunami Field Survey Procedures: An Outline
- An Analysis of the Recent Severe Storm Surge Disaster Events in China
- Risk Assessment, Emergency Preparedness and Response to Hazards: The Case of the 1997 Red River Valley Flood, Canada
- Robust Statistical Methods to Discriminate Extreme Events in Geoelectrical Precursory Signals: Implications with Earthquake Prediction
- Hydrogeochemical Precursors in Kamchatka (Russia) Related to the Strongest Earthquakes in 1988–1997
- Multifractal Analysis of the Arnea, Greece Seismicity with Potential Implications for Earthquake Prediction
- Estimation of Strong Ground Motion Due to Hypothetical Fault Ruptures and Comparison with Recorded Values: The Zakynthos, Western Greece Earthquake of 18 November 1997
- Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy Used as a Tool for the Detection of Fractures in Rock Samples Exposed to either Hydrostatic or Triaxial Pressure Conditions
- Earthquake Hazard for the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia — Contribution to the ILC/IASPEI Global Seismic Hazard Assessment Program
- Contribution of Geographical Information Systems to the Management of Volcanic Crises
- GIS and Volcanic Risk Management
- A Systems Approach to Modeling Catastrophic Risk and Insurability
- Hazards-98: Summary of Papers