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This book discusses how to collect data and analyze databases in
order to map risk zones, and contributes to developing a conceptual
framework for coastal risk assessment. Further, the book primarily
focuses on a specific case study: the Bay of Bengal along the
southeastern coast of India. The dramatic rise in losses and
casualties due to natural disasters like wind, storm-surge-induced
flooding, seismic hazards and tsunami incidence along this coast
over the past few decades has prompted a major national scientific
initiative investigating the probable causes and possible
mitigation strategies. As such, geoscientists are called upon to
analyze the coastal hazards by anticipating the changes in and
impacts of extreme weather hazards on the Bay of Bengal coasts as a
result of global climate change and local sea-level change.
Global Urban Heat Island Mitigation provides a comprehensive
picture of global UHI micro-thermal interaction in different built
environments. The book explains physical principles and how to
moderate undesirable consequences of swift and haphazard urban
development to create more sustainable and resilient cities.
Sections provide extensive discussion on numerous UHI mitigation
technologies and their effectiveness in cities around the globe. In
addition, the book proposes novel UHI mitigation technologies and
strategies while also assessing the effectiveness and suitability
of UHI mitigation interventions in various climates and urban
forms.
Urban Heat Island Modeling for Tropical Climates takes into account
the different urban physics in tropical environments, presenting a
way of UHI scaling for tropical cities. Topics include measuring,
modeling and proper mitigation strategies, which account for the
surface energy balance of tropics. Tropical cities are more
susceptible to the effects of projected global warming because of
conditions in tropical climates and the rapid growth of so many
cities in this zone. The need for research on measuring, modeling
and mitigation of UHI effects in tropical cities is of growing
importance. This book walks through the basics of Urban Heat
Islands, including causes, measurement and analysis then expands
upon issues as well as the novel techniques that can be used to
address issues specific to the region.
This book focuses on vulnerability issues associated with urban
development over Dehradun paleo-alluvial fan. The city of Dehradun
occupies the central part of the elongated piggy back syncline Doon
Valley and sits on loose unconsolidated coarse clastic Doon gravels
derived from the Lesser Himalayas being deposited by Bindal and
Rispana river systems during the Late Pleistocene and Holocene age.
Rapid and unmatched conversion of land into continuously built up
area over the tectonically active, geomorphologically sensitive,
structurally feeble, and hydrologically incapable area has grossly
obliterated the natural setting. Thus the age old city has become
susceptible to various physical hazards. The city area has been
divided into geomorphological units having varying risk of being
affected by different hazards like flash flood, landslide, and
earthquake. This work examines the nature of urban space juxtaposed
upon the physical space offered by the alluvial fan using satellite
images; analyses of sedimentary facies, hydrological data and shear
wave velocity data. Such information have been fused in GIS
platform to a vulnerability map. This book is likely to help the
urban planners.
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