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This book is a part of ICL new book series "ICL Contribution to
Landslide Disaster Risk Reduction" founded in 2019. Peer-reviewed
papers submitted to the Fifth World Landslide Forum were published
in six volumes of this book series. This book contains the
followings: * One theme lecture and one keynote lecture* Monitoring
and remote sensing for landslide risk mitigation, including one
keynote lecture* Landslide early warning systems, forecasting
models and time prediction of landslides Prof. Nicola Casagli is a
Vice President and President-elect of the International Consortium
on Landslides (ICL) for 2021-2023. He is Professor of engineering
geology at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of
Florence, and President of the National Institute of Oceanography
and Applied Geophysics - OGS, Trieste, Italy. Dr. Veronica Tofani
is an Associate Professor at the Department of Earth Sciences,
University of Florence, and Program Coordinator of the UNESCO Chair
on Prevention and Sustainable Management of Geo-hydrological
hazards, University of Florence. Prof. Kyoji Sassa is the Founding
President and the Secretary-General of the International Consortium
on Landslides (ICL). He has been the Editor-in-Chief of
International Journal Landslides since its foundation in 2004.
Prof. Peter Bobrowsky is the President of the International
Consortium on Landslides. He is a Senior Scientist of Geological
Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Canada. Prof. Kaoru Takara is the
Executive Director of the International Consortium on Landslides.
He is a Professor and Dean of Graduate School of Advanced
Integrated Studies (GSAIS) in Human Survivability (Shishu-Kan),
Kyoto University.
This book is a part of ICL new book series "ICL Contribution to
Landslide Disaster Risk Reduction" founded in 2019. Peer-reviewed
papers submitted to the Fifth World Landslide Forum were published
in six volumes of this book series. This book contains the
following parts: * Impact of Large Ground Deformations near Seismic
Faults on Critically Important Civil Infrastructures* Recent
Progress in the Landslide Initiating Science* Earth Observation and
Machine Learning in Landslide Science* General Landslide Studies
Professor Zeljko Arbanas is the Vice President of International
Consortium on Landslides. He is a Professor of Faculty of Civil
Engineering, University of Rijeka, Croatia. He is the Assistant
Editor-in-Chief of International Journal Landslides. Professor
Peter Bobrowsky is the President of International Consortium on
Landslides. He is a Senior Scientist of Geological Survey of
Canada, Ottawa, Canada. Professor Kazuo Konagai is Professor
Emeritus at the University of Tokyo and Principal Researcher at the
ICL Headquarters. He serves as the Secretary-General of the Fifth
World Landslide Forum. Professor Kyoji Sassa is the Founding
President and the Secretary-General of the International Consortium
on Landslides (ICL). He has been the Editor-in-Chief of
International Journal Landslides since its foundation in 2004.
Professor Kaoru Takara is the Executive Director of International
Consortium on Landslides. He is a Professor and Dean of Graduate
School of Advanced Integrated Studies (GSAIS) in Human
Survivability (Shishu-Kan), Kyoto University.
The book, after two introductory chapters on seismic design
principles and structural seismic analysis methods, proceeds with
the detailed description of seismic design methods for steel
building structures. These methods include all the well-known
methods, like force-based or displacement-based methods, plus some
other methods developed by the present authors or other authors
that have reached a level of maturity and are applicable to a large
class of steel building structures. For every method, detailed
practical examples and supporting references are provided in order
to illustrate the methods and demonstrate their merits. As a unique
feature, the present book describes not just one, as it is the case
with existing books on seismic design of steel structures, but
various seismic design methods including application examples
worked in detail. The book is a valuable source of information, not
only for MS and PhD students, but also for researchers and
practicing engineers engaged with the design of steel building
structures.
This book focuses on the application of geospatial technologies to
study the land use land cover (LULC) dynamics, agricultural water
management, water resources assessment and modeling, and studies on
natural disasters. LULC dynamics is one of the major research
themes for studying global environmental change using remote
sensing data. The section on LULC dynamics covers the multi-variate
criteria for land use and land cover classification and change
assessment in the mountainous regions. Further, LULC change
detection of the Tons river basin and LULC dynamics at decadal
frequency are studied to derive adaptation and mitigation
strategies. Landscape-level forest disturbance modeling, together
with conservation implications, is also included. The watershed
management approach is necessary for comprehensive management of
land and water resources of any region, where studies on
multi-criteria analysis for rainwater harvesting planning and its
impact on land use land cover transformations in rain-fed areas
using geospatial technologies are presented in this book. The book
will be useful for academics, water practitioners, scientists,
water managers, environmentalists, and administrators, NGOs,
researchers, and students who are actively involved in the
application of geospatial technologies in LULC studies,
agricultural water management and hydrological modelling and
natural disasters for addressing the challenges being posed by
climate change while addressing issues of food and water securities
This book aims to provide insight into how Southeast Asian
countries have responded to disasters, recovered, and rebuilt. It
investigates emergency response and disaster recovery cases at
national levels and from regional perspectives. Recovery from great
disasters poses great challenges to affected countries in terms of
organization, financing, and opportunities for post-disaster
betterment. Importantly, disasters are critical moments in which to
achieve disaster risk reduction, especially in the context of
climate change and Sustainable Development Goals. Insights from
these cases can help other countries better prepare for response
and recovery before the next disaster strikes. While the
experiences of disaster risk reduction and climate change
implementation in Southeast Asian countries have been well
documented, tacit knowledge from emergency response and recovery
from these countries has not been transformed into explicit
knowledge. There are only a few books that integrate information
and lessons from post-disaster governance in Southeast Asia as a
region, and because of the importance of providing real and recent
situations, this book will interest many policymakers,
practitioners, and academics. The information presented here will
lead to a better understanding of how to plan for future disasters
and improve governance to ensure effective emergency response as
well as encouraging a build back better and safer towards a more
resilient and sustained recovery.
Most landslides are triggered by rainfall. In previous studies,
slope stability is often evaluated based on the infiltration
analysis. Hydro-mechanical coupling is significant to
rainfall-caused landslide evolution. This book covers theoretical
models of unsaturated infiltration, and provides hydro-mechanical
models for rainfall-induced landslides. The influences of rainfall
patterns, boundary conditions, layered structures, and SWCC
hysteresis on the coupled unsaturated infiltration and deformation
are discussed. Laboratory testing of rainfall-induced landslides is
performed to study the developing process of landslide upon
rainfall infiltration. The results provide a better understanding
of rainfall-induced landslides.
In the early months of 2020, the world's attention was riveted on
Australia, where the nation's iconic wildlife fought for survival
in the face of unprecedented wildfires. Images of koalas drinking
from firefighters' water bottles went viral and became the global
face of a catastrophe that would kill as many as three billion
animals. Known as the Black Summer, the fire season was responsible
for more wildlife deaths and near-extinctions than any other single
event in Australian history. Flames of Extinction, written by a
journalist at the heart of this news coverage, is the first book to
tell the stories of Australia's record-setting fires, focusing on
the wild animals and plants that will be forever changed. As news
of the fires spread around the world, journalist John Pickrell was
inundated with requests for articles about the danger to
Australia's wildlife. The picture seemed grim, from charred koalas
to flames that burned so hot not even animal skeletons remained.
But Pickrell's reporting exposed a larger picture of hope. Flames
of Extinction tells the story of the scientists, wildlife
rehabilitators, and community members who came together to save
wildlife and protect them in the future. As climate change
intensifies and devastating wildfires become more commonplace,
Australia's Black Summer offers a poignant warning to the rest of
the world. Through evocative and urgent storytelling, Flames of
Extinction puts readers on the ground to witness the aftermath of
one of Australia's greatest tragedies and inside the inspiring
effort to save lives.
This book summarizes the research being pursued as part of the
Erasmus+ CBHE KA2 project entitled "Development of master curricula
for natural disasters risk management in Western Balkan countries"
(NatRisk), which aims to educate experts on the prevention and
management of natural disasters in the Western Balkan region in
line with national and EU policies. The project has successfully
developed and implemented master curricula and educational training
in the field of natural disasters risk management, and a
methodology for the identification and prevention of natural
disasters. Consisting of 11 chapters, the book analyzes and
discusses topics such as risk assessment tools and quality methods,
the different approaches for civil-military collaboration, natural
disasters risk management in Bosnia and Herzegovina, leadership
models for managing crises resulting from natural disasters,
natural disasters in industrial areas, natural risk management in
geotechnics, flood risk modeling, adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference
models for flood prediction, collapse prediction of masonry arches,
an algorithm for fire truck dispatch in emergency situations, and
processing drought data in a GIS environment.
This richly illustrated book describes statistical extreme value
theory for the quantification of natural hazards, such as strong
winds, floods and rainfall, and discusses an interdisciplinary
approach to allow the theoretical methods to be applied. The
approach consists of a number of steps: data selection and
correction, non-stationary theory (to account for trends due to
climate change), and selecting appropriate estimation techniques
based on both decision-theoretic features (e.g., Bayesian theory),
empirical robustness and a valid treatment of uncertainties. It
also examines and critically reviews alternative approaches based
on stochastic and dynamic numerical models, as well as recently
emerging data analysis issues and presents large-scale,
multidisciplinary, state-of-the-art case studies. Intended for all
those with a basic knowledge of statistical methods interested in
the quantification of natural hazards, the book is also a valuable
resource for engineers conducting risk analyses in collaboration
with scientists from other fields (such as hydrologists,
meteorologists, climatologists).
This book presents a comprehensive selection of applications
employed in environmental remote sensing using optical and thermal
infrared satellite-sensors aiming to map natural resources, crops,
groundwater, surface water, aquatic ecosystem, land degradation,
air quality, renewable energy, regional resources, and
climate-related geophysical processes. The technologies presented
in this book also include satellite images, space-borne radar
sensors focusing on the most versatile one, data from synthetic
aperture radar (SAR), scatterometers and radar altimeters in Egypt.
This volume also presents a thorough explanation of the remote
sensing role showing physical fundamentals of the climate change
phenomenon including gas emissions, and the impact on resources
concerning the sustainable development of Egypt. Besides, the book
includes an analysis of oil pollution in both Mediterranean and Red
Seas This book is intended for environmental policymakers working
in Egypt as well as scientists working with remote sensing
technologies in highly populated arid regions.
After the storm, a community comes togetherFramed by the stories of
Hurricane Maria evacuees, Tossed to the Wind is the gripping
account of the wreckage, despair, and displacement left in the wake
of one of the deadliest natural disasters on U.S. soil. It is also
a story of hope and endurance as Puerto Ricans on the island shared
what little they had and the diaspora in Florida offered
refuge.Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico as a high-end Category 4,
and the storm surge, flash flooding, and countless landslides
created widespread devastation. One hundred percent of the island
lost drinking water and electricity. More than 3 million U.S.
citizens lived for months without power, making it the worst
blackout in American history. The slow recovery led to a mass
evacuation. Thousands gathered what they had left and traveled to
central Florida-already home to 1 million Puerto Ricans. In Tossed
to the Wind, Maria Padilla and Nancy Rosado interview Puerto Ricans
from all walks of life who now live in Orlando and Kissimmee, who
fight every day to pick up the pieces of their world after
Hurricane Maria. In their own words, evacuees describe families
living temporarily out of motels, parents anxious about providing
for their children, children starting new schools, and everyone
worried about the families and friends they left behind. Told from
the midst of chaos and incomprehensible loss, these are the
stories-filled with pain and wisdom, sadness and laughter-that
showcase the strength and resolve of Puerto Ricans.
The recent explosion of global and regional seismicity data in the
world requires new methods of investigation of microseismicity and
development of their modelling to understand the nature of whole
earth mechanics. In this book, the author proposes a powerful tool
to reveal the characteristic features of global and regional
microseismicity big data accumulated in the databases of the world.
The method proposed in this monograph is based on (1)
transformation of stored big data to seismicity density data
archives, (2) linear transformation of microseismicity density data
matrixes to correlated seismicity matrixes by means of the singular
value decomposition method, (3) time series analyses of globally
and regionally correlated seismicity rates, and (4) the minimal
non-linear equations approximation of their correlated seismicity
rate dynamics. Minimal non-linear modelling is the manifestation
for strongly correlated seismicity time series controlled by
Langevin-type stochastic dynamic equations involving deterministic
terms and random Gaussian noises. A deterministic term is composed
minimally with correlated seismicity rate vectors of a linear term
and of a term with a third exponent. Thus, the dynamics of
correlated seismicity in the world contains linearly changing
stable nodes and rapid transitions between them with transient
states. This book contains discussions of future possibilities of
stochastic extrapolations of global and regional seismicity in
order to reduce earthquake disasters worldwide. The dataset files
are available online and can be downloaded at springer.com.
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