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Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Environmental impact of natural disasters & phenomena
This book collects a series of review articles summarizing the
outcomes of collaborative research projects on the 1999 Chi-Chi
earthquake and the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, two of the largest and
most disastrous earthquakes in Asia in the last two decades. The
articles cover a broad range of aspects,including these
earthquakes' fundamental mechanisms, kinematics, and the geological
and geophysical background of their fracture faults. Presenting
comprehensive coverage, the book offers a valuable reference guide
to these two devastating earthquakes.
On August 29th 2005, the headwaters of Hurricane Katrina's
storm-surge arrived at New Orleans, the levees broke and the city
was inundated. Perhaps no other disaster of the 21st century has so
captured the global media's attention and featured in the
'imagination of disaster' like Katrina. The Katrina Effect charts
the important ethical territory that underscores thinking about
disaster and the built environment globally. Given the unfolding of
recent events, disasters are acquiring original and complex
meanings. This is partly because of the global expansion and
technological interaction of urban societies in which the multiple
and varied impacts of disasters are recognized. These meanings pose
significant new problems for civil society: what becomes of public
accountability, egalitarianism and other democratic ideals in the
face of catastrophe? This collection of critical essays assesses
the storm's global impact on overlapping urban, social and
political imaginaries. Given the coincidence and 'perfect storm' of
environmental, geo-political and economic challenges facing liberal
democratic societies, communities will come under increasing strain
to preserve and restore social fabric while affording all citizens
equal opportunity in determining the forms that future cities and
communities will take. Today, 21st century economic neo-liberalism,
global warming or recent theories of 'urban vulnerability' and
resilience provide key new contexts for understanding the meaning
and legacy of Katrina.
This book documents the state of the art in the use of remote
sensing to address time-sensitive information requirements.
Specifically, it brings together a group of authors who are both
researchers and practitioners, who work toward or are currently
using remote sensing to address time-sensitive information
requirements with the goal of advancing the effective use of remote
sensing to supply time-sensitive information. The book addresses
the theoretical implications of time-sensitivity on the remote
sensing process, assessments or descriptions of methods for
expediting the delivery and improving the quality of information
derived from remote sensing, and describes and analyzes
time-sensitive remote sensing applications, with an emphasis on
lessons learned. This book is intended for remote sensing
scientists, practitioners (e.g., emergency responders or
administrators of emergency response agencies), and students, but
will also be of use to those seeking to understand the potential of
remote sensing to address a range of pressing issues, particularly
natural and anthropogenic hazard response.
More than a simple monograph, the authors present a comprehensive
geomorphic overview of a large tropical region where they show how
deciphering the long-term landform evolution helps understanding
the present set of landscapes and morphodynamic environments. The
Equatorial margin of the Brazilian "Nordeste" displays
stratigraphic landmarks whose interpretation reveals the age and
nature of landforms, leading to a reconstruction of the geomorphic
history by the means of combined morphostratigraphic and
morphopedological approaches. Beyond the role of differential
erosion related to moderate post-oceanic opening uplift, the plain
and upland landscape reflects a juxtaposition of landform and soil
generations related to a shallow basin inversion, the last stages
of which occurred in semi-arid conditions since the Oligocene.
These results throw light on old debates on models of long-term
landform development in platform areas, and also help evaluating
recent models of denudation and burial based on thermochronological
methods.
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