Geomorphological hazards and disaster prevention

Human activities have had a huge impact on the environment and landscape, through industrialisation and land-use change, leading to climate change, deforestation, desertification, land degradation, air and water pollution. These impacts are strongly linked to the occurrence of geomorphological hazards, such asfloods, landslides, snow avalanches, soil erosion, and others. Geomorphological work includes not only the understanding but the mapping and modelling of Earth's surface processes, many of which directly affect human societies. In addition, geomorphologists are becoming increasingly involved with the dimensions of societal problem solving, through vulnerability analysis, hazard and riskassessment and management. The work of geomorphologists is therefore of primeimportance for disaster prevention. An international team of geomorphologistshave contributed their expertise to this volume, making this a scientificallyrigorous work for a wide audience of geomorphologists and other Earth scientists, including those involved in environmental science, hazard and risk assessment, management and policy.

• ISBN: 978-0-521-76925-9
• Editorial: Cambridge University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 291
• Fecha Publicación: 01/03/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés