Risk and Uncertainty Assessment for Natural Hazards
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Risk and Uncertainty Assessment for Natural Hazards

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Risk and Uncertainty Assessment for Natural Hazards

About this book

Assessment of risk and uncertainty is crucial for natural hazard risk management, facilitating risk communication and informing strategies to successfully mitigate our society's vulnerability to natural disasters. Written by some of the world's leading experts, this book provides a state-of-the-art overview of risk and uncertainty assessment in natural hazards. It presents the core statistical concepts using clearly defined terminology applicable across all types of natural hazards and addresses the full range of sources of uncertainty, the role of expert judgement and the practice of uncertainty elicitation. The core of the book provides detailed coverage of all the main hazard types and concluding chapters address the wider societal context of risk management. This is an invaluable compendium for academic researchers and professionals working in the fields of natural hazards science, risk assessment and management and environmental science, and will be of interest to anyone involved in natural hazards policy.

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Yes, you can access Risk and Uncertainty Assessment for Natural Hazards by Jonathan Rougier,Steve Sparks,Lisa J. Hill in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Biological Sciences & Environmental Science. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Contributors
  4. Preface
  5. 1 Risk assessment and uncertainty in natural hazards
  6. 2 Quantifying hazard losses
  7. 3 Model and data limitations: the sources and implications of epistemic uncertainty
  8. 4 Quantifying scientific uncertainty from expert judgement elicitation
  9. 5 Risk and uncertainty in hydrometeorological hazards
  10. 6 Hydrometeorological hazards under future climate change
  11. 7 Flood risk and uncertainty
  12. 8 Scientific uncertainties: a perspective from probabilistic seismic hazard assessments for low-seismicity areas
  13. 9 Landslide and avalanche hazards
  14. 10 Tsunami hazard and risk
  15. 11 Risk and uncertainty assessment of volcanic hazards
  16. 12 Risk assessment and management of wildfires
  17. 13 Catastrophic impacts of natural hazards on technological facilities and infrastructure
  18. 14 Statistical aspects of risk characterisation in ecotoxicology
  19. 15 Social science perspectives on natural hazards risk and uncertainty
  20. 16 Natural hazards and risk: the human perspective
  21. Index