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Geohazards and Disasters

Modelling Scenarios as a Challenge for the Future

  • 1st Edition - February 20, 2025
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Salvatore Martino, Marta Della Seta, Carlo Esposito
  • Language: English

Geohazards and Disasters: Modelling Scenarios as a Challenge for the Future aims to depict an updated view of the most significant technical-scientific knowledge on the topic of… Read more

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Description

Geohazards and Disasters: Modelling Scenarios as a Challenge for the Future aims to depict an updated view of the most significant technical-scientific knowledge on the topic of geological risks and related mitigation strategies with a focus on the resilience of anthropic communities, and with an aim to sensitize them towards a prevention approach that is fed through awareness and technical competence. This book fills knowledge gaps by relating on scientific and technical progress for the conscious and sustainable management of risk in a multi-hazard perspective.

This comprehensive resource will be a welcomed by researchers, academicians, graduate and undergraduate students, and professionals in the field of geology, specifically those focused on geohazards and disaster management.

Key features

  • Provides a synoptical view of geohazards and disasters
  • Introduces a parallel design of chapters from hazards and potential scenarios
  • Presents the most up to date scientific contents and technologies related to geohazards

Readership

Researchers and professionals in the field of earth and environmental science, specifically focused on geohazards and disaster management, Academics in the above field

Table of contents

1.Geohazards and Communities
•Concepts and Definitions
•From Losses to Resilience

2.Ground Instabilities
•Processes Overview
•Susceptibility and Hazard Analyses
•Toward Forward Scenarios

3.Earthquake Induced Effects
•Processes Overview
•Seismic Hazard from Source to Site
•Seismic Microzonation for Mitigation Strategies

4.Floods
•Processes Overview
•From Back Analysis to Learning
•Toward Forward Scenarios

5.Soil and Groundwater Pollution
•Processes Overview
•New Technologies and Methods for Conceptual Site Models
•Mitigation and Remediation Strategies

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: February 20, 2025
  • Language: English

About the editors

SM

Salvatore Martino

Salvatore Martino is a professor in engineering geology at the University of Rome La Sapienza, in Italy. His research interests lie in the study of landslides, slope stability, local seismic response, earthquake-induced effects, numerical modelling, and geotechnical laboratories. He is a reviewer of nine international and two national scientific journals, and is a member of the editorial board of the Italian Journal of Engineering Geology and Environment. Dr. Martino is also currently a consultant at NHAZCA Spin-off Sapienza and ACEA-ATO 2 S.p.A. He has published 54 papers on national and international journals, 51 on proceedings, and 14 monographies and book chapters.
Affiliations and expertise
Full Professor, Sapienza Università di Roma, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Rome, Italy

MD

Marta Della Seta

Marta Della Seta is a professor and researcher of geomorphology at the Department of Earth Sciences in the University of Rome La Sapienza, in Italy. Her research interests are in the morpho-evolution of the Earth’s surface in response to tectonic and climatic forces, focusing on tectonic geomorphology, geomorphological hazards, water erosion, and volcanic geomorphology. She has co-authored more than 40 research papers published on national and international journals, and is a member of the editorial board of Catena (Elsevier) and the Italian Journal of Engineering Geology and Environment.
Affiliations and expertise
Full Professor, Sapienza Università di Roma, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Rome, Italy

CE

Carlo Esposito

Carlo Esposito is an associate professor at the University of Rome La Sapienza, in Italy. His research interests are in the study of slope instability processes focusing on analysis of landslide susceptibility and hazards, seismic conditions characterization, analysis and prediction of large-scale gravitational instability processes, applications of geomatics to urban geology and geological risks, and geological modeling for the optimization of remediation of contaminated sites. Dr. Esposito is a member of the CERI research center, and combining his research activity with his professional activity, mainly carries out as a consultant for engineering companies on issues of hydrogeological instability and the design of underground works.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Sapienza Università di Roma, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Rome, Italy

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