Hazards and Monitoring of Volcanic Activity 1

Geological and Historic Approaches

Jean-François Lénat

• Publisher: Wiley-ISTE
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781789450439
• eBook ISBN: 9781394163274
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Naturwissenschaften
• Subtopic: Seismologie & Vulkanismus

The impact of natural disasters has become an important and ever-growing preoccupation for modern societies. Volcanic eruptions are particularly feared due to their devastating local, regional or global effects. Relevant scientific expertise that aims to evaluate the hazards of volcanic activity and monitor and predict eruptions has progressively developed since the start of the 20th century. The further development of fundamental knowledge and technological advances over this period have allowed scientific capabilities in this field to evolve.

Hazards and Monitoring of Volcanic Activity groups a number of available techniques and approaches to render them easily accessible to teachers, researchers and students.

This volume is dedicated to geological and historical approaches. The assessment of hazards and monitoring strategies is based primarily on knowledge of a volcano's past behavior or that of similar volcanoes. The book presents the different types of volcanic hazards and various approaches to their mapping before providing a history of monitoring techniques.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• List of Abbreviations
• 1. Understanding the Geological History of Volcanoes: An Essential Prerequisite to Their Monitoring
• 2. Volcanic Hazards
• 3. Assessment, Delineation of Hazard Zones and Modeling of Volcanic Hazards
• 4. History of Volcanic Monitoring and Development of Methods
• List of Authors
• Index
• EULA