Volcanic hazards, risks and disasters /

"Volcanic Hazards, Risks, and Disasters provides you with the latest scientific developments in volcano and volcanic research, including causality, impacts, preparedness, risk analysis, planning, response, recovery, and the economics of loss and remediation. It takes a geoscientific approach to...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Papale, Paolo (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2014.
Series:Hazards and disasters series (Elsevier)
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:"Volcanic Hazards, Risks, and Disasters provides you with the latest scientific developments in volcano and volcanic research, including causality, impacts, preparedness, risk analysis, planning, response, recovery, and the economics of loss and remediation. It takes a geoscientific approach to the topic while integrating the social and economic issues related to volcanoes and volcanic hazards and disasters. Throughout the book case studies are presented of historically relevant volcanic and seismic hazards and disasters as well as recent catastrophes, such as Chile's Puyehue volcano eruption in June 2011"--
Physical Description:1 online resource : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9780123964762
0123964768