Reprint
Inaugural Section Special Issue
Key Topics and Future Perspectives in Natural Hazards Research
Edited by
February 2021
226 pages
- ISBN978-3-03943-833-4 (Hardback)
- ISBN978-3-03943-834-1 (PDF)
This book is a reprint of the Special Issue Inaugural Section Special Issue: Key Topics and Future Perspectives in Natural Hazards Research that was published in
Environmental & Earth Sciences
Summary
This book collects selected high-quality papers published in 2018–2020 to inaugurate the “Natural Hazards” Section of the Geosciences journal. The topics encompass: trends in publications at international level in the field of natural hazards research; the role of Big Data in natural disaster management; assessment of seismic risk through the understanding and quantification of its different components; climatic/hydro-meteorological hazards; and finally, the scientific analysis and disaster forensics of recent natural hazard events. The target audience includes not only specialists, but also graduate students who wish to approach the challenging, but also fascinating
Format
- Hardback
License
© 2022 by the authors; CC BY-NC-ND license
Keywords
big data; disaster management; review; natural hazards; disaster; scientometrics; bibliometrics; citation analysis; NatCatSERVICE; Sigma Explorer; Oroville Dam; spillway; incident; flood control; flood-frequency analysis; dam operation; drought; impacts; exposure; vulnerability; risk; policy; risk assessment; natural hazards; earthquake risk; energy security; reliability of power supply; Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU); integration process; common electricity market; masonry aggregates; vulnerability assessment; vulnerability curves; damage scenarios; local hazard effect; psychological representation of earthquakes; open-ended and closed-questions surveys; children; seismic hazard assessment; emotions; emotional prevention; African easterly wave; attractor coexistence; chaos; hurricane; limit cycle; Lorenz model; predictability; recurrence; extended range weather prediction; Jakarta basin; site effects; earthquake risk; shear-wave velocity; urban fabrics; seismic vulnerability; critic analysis; cost modelling; urban preservation programming; building works programming; natural hazard; earthquake; drought; hurricane; dam spillway; shear-wave velocity; psychology; disaster management; big data; cyber-infrastructure