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Timothy R. Davies - Geomorphology and Natural Hazards: Understanding Landscape Change for Disaster Mitigation - 9781119990314 - V9781119990314
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Geomorphology and Natural Hazards: Understanding Landscape Change for Disaster Mitigation

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Description for Geomorphology and Natural Hazards: Understanding Landscape Change for Disaster Mitigation Paperback. Series: Wiley Works. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: RB; TN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 189. .

Natural disasters are occasional intense events that disturb Earth's surface, but their impact can be felt long after. Hazard events such as earthquakes, volcanos, drought, and storms can trigger a catastrophic reshaping of the landscape through the erosion, transport, and deposition of different kinds of materials.

Geomorphology and Natural Hazards: Understanding Landscape Change for Disaster Mitigation is a graduate level textbook that explores the natural hazards resulting from landscape change and shows how an Earth science perspective can inform hazard mitigation and disaster impact reduction.

Volume highlights include:

  • Definitions of hazards, risks, and disasters
  • Impact of different natural hazards on Earth ... Read more
  • Geomorphologic insights for hazard assessment and risk mitigation
  • Models for predicting natural hazards
  • How human activities have altered 'natural' hazards
  • Complementarity of geomorphology and engineering to manage threats
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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2021
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Series
Wiley Works
Number of Pages
576
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781119990314
SKU
V9781119990314
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-2

About Timothy R. Davies
Tim Davies is Professor in the School of Earth and Environment at University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Educated in Civil Engineering in UK in the 1970s, he taught in Agricultural Engineering and subsequently Natural Resources Engineering at Lincoln University, New Zealand before transferring to University of Canterbury in the present millennium to teach into Engineering Geology and Disaster Risk and ... Read more

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