Coastal and marine hazards, risks, and disasters /
- 出版日期：c2015.
- 出版者：Elsevier,
- 页数：xv, 573 pages :
- 出版地：Amsterdam :
- 第一责任说明：volume editors, Jean T. Ellis, Douglas J. Sherman.
- 尺寸：24 cm
- 分类号：a226 ; a875.6
- ISBN：9780123964830(hardback) :
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02h0073300 20160214155453.0 160205s2015 ne ab frb |001|||eng d 9780123964830(hardback) : CNY995.00 (OCoLC)900241852 YDXCP eng YDXCP OCLCQ ; NKM ; YHM ; CNNGL GB451.2 .C63 2015 551.45/7 23 a226 ; a875.6 aP737.1 v5 Coastal and marine hazards, risks, and disasters / volume editors, Jean T. Ellis, Douglas J. Sherman. Amsterdam : Elsevier, c2015. aAmsterdam, Netherlands ; ; aWaltham, MA : bElsevier, c[2015] xv, 573 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm atext ; astill image btxt ; bsti 2rdacontent ; 2rdacontent aunmediated bn 2rdamedia avolume bnc 2rdacarrier Hazards and disasters series Includes bibliographic reference and index. Perspectives on Coastal and Marine Hazards and Disasters / Jean T. Ellis, Douglas J. Sherman -- Tsunami Dynamics, Forecasting, and Mitigation / Utku Kanoglu, Costas Synolakis -- Paleotsunami Research-Current Debate and Controversies / Anja M. Scheffers -- Tsunami Case Studies / Eugene J. Farrell, Jean T. Ellis, Kieran R. Hickey -- Palaeostorm Surges and Inundations / Jonathan F. Nott -- Storm Surge Case Studies / Hans von Storch, Wensheng Jiang, Kazimierz K. Furmanczyk -- Sea-Level Rise: Causes, Impacts, and Scenarios for Change / Robert J.N. Devoy -- Adapting to Sea Level Rise / Robert J. Nicholls -- Storm-Induced Morphology Changes along Barrier Islands and Poststorm Recovery / Ping Wang, Tiffany M. Roberts Briggs -- Extreme Waves: Causes, Characteristics, and Impact on Coastal Environments and Society / Jim D. Hansom, Adam D. Switzer, Jeremy Pile -- Rip Currents / Robert W. Brander -- Sea Ice: Hazards, Risks, and Implications for Disasters / Hajo Eicken, Andrew R. Mahoney -- Mangroves,Tropical Cyclones, and Coastal Hazard Risk Reduction / Anna McIvor,Thomas Spencer, Mark Spalding, Carmen Lacambra, Iris Moller -- Coral Reef Systems and the Complexity of Hazards / Paul S. Kench, Susan D. Owen -- Threats to Marsh Resources and Mitigation / Virginia D. Hansen, Kelly Chinners Reis -- Living with Harmful Algal Blooms in a Changing World: Strategies for Modeling and Mitigating Their Effects in Coastal Marine Ecosystems / Clarissa R. Anderson, Stephanie K. Moore, Michelle C. Tomlinson, Joe Silke, Caroline K. Cusack. Sea and Ocean Hazards, Risks and Disasters provides a scientific approach to those hazards and disasters related to the Earth's coasts and oceans. This is the first book to integrate scientific, social, and economic issues related to disasters such as hazard identification, risk analysis, and planning, relevant hazard process mechanics, discussions of preparedness, response, and recovery, and the economics of loss and remediation. Throughout the book cases studies are presented of historically relevant hazards and disasters as well as the many recent catastrophes. Contains contributions from experts in the field selected by a world-renowned editorial board Cutting-edge discussion of natural hazard topics that affect the lives and livelihoods of millions of humans worldwide Numerous full-color tables, GIS maps, diagrams, illustrations, and photographs of hazardous processes in action will be included. Coasts ; Natural disasters. Risk assessment. aEllis, Jean T., ; eeditor. ; aSherman, Douglas Joel, ; d1949- ; eeditor. Hazards and disasters series. aCN b010001 010001 226 EL5 gljx1601 h1 ; rCNY995.00