000 02339nam a22003257a 4500
001 sulb-eb0016359
003 BD-SySUS
005 20160405135335.0
008 101021s2010||||enk o ||1 0|eng|d
020 _a9780511807527 (ebook)
020 _z9780521769259 (hardback)
020 _z9781107414785 (paperback)
040 _aUkCbUP
_beng
_erda
_cUkCbUP
_dBD-SySUS
082 0 0 _a551.41
_222
245 0 0 _aGeomorphological Hazards and Disaster Prevention /
_cedited by Irasema Alcántara-Ayala, Andrew S. Goudie.
246 3 _aGeomorphological Hazards & Disaster Prevention
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2010.
300 _a1 online resource (304 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520 _aHuman 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, and air and water pollution. These impacts are strongly linked to the occurrence of geomorphological hazards, such as floods, 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 risk assessment and management. The work of geomorphologists is therefore of prime importance for disaster prevention. An international team of geomorphologists have contributed their expertise to this volume, making this a scientifically rigorous work for a wide audience of geomorphologists and other Earth scientists, including those involved in environmental science, hazard and risk assessment, management and policy.
650 0 _aGeomorphology
700 1 _aAlcántara-Ayala, Irasema,
_eeditor.
700 1 _aGoudie, Andrew S.,
_eeditor.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9780521769259
856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511807527
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c37797
_d37797