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Books in Environmental risk assessment

  • Integrated Risk Assessment for Hazards and Disasters

    Foundations, Innovations, and Applications
    • 1st Edition
    • Muhammad Sajjad
    • English
    Integrated Risk Assessment for Hazards and Disasters: Foundations, Innovations, and Applications offers an astute synthesis of the latest technology, science, and practical applications to equip researchers and practitioners with the tools they need to anticipate, prepare for, and respond to natural catastrophes. Chapters begin with a critical look at defining risk in contemporary society and the evolution of risk assessment practices, with experts reviewing the fundamentals of hazard identification and risk analysis along with the science of predictive modeling. Methodological innovations are reviewed, including comparisons between qualitative and quantitative approaches, synthesizing integrated risk assessment models and the benefit of community engagement.New technological applications such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and remote sensing are examined. Several case studies review real-world instances of earthquake risk analysis, flood risk management, wildfire risk mitigation, and landslide risk in diverse terrain. The book closes with a look ahead at future developments in risk assessment techniques and opportunities to enhance global cooperation. This invaluable resource provides readers the latest thinking on risk and resilience-informed decision-making, strategic resource allocation, and effective communication to forge a path toward a more resilient future.

  • Landslide Science

    Geospatial Advances in Monitoring, Modeling, and Management
    • 1st Edition
    • Christos Polykretis + 3 more
    • English
    Landslide Science: Geospatial Advances in Monitoring, Modeling, and Management presents a detailed exploration of the latest advancements in landslide research, offering a thorough examination of the latest geospatial technologies and methodologies. The book begins with a comprehensive exploration of landslides, starting with an understanding of their nature, including characteristics, types, and historical perspectives. Factors triggering or influencing landslides are examined, such as rainfall, earthquakes, and topographical influences. Remote sensing techniques for landslide investigation are detailed, covering detection, monitoring, and imagery data processing methods using various sensors and technologies. Spatial landslide assessment and mapping are discussed, including inventory mapping, susceptibility assessment, and hazard assessment utilizing different approaches and uncertainty validation methods. Engineering-based landslide analysis focuses on geotechnical aspects, hydrogeological influences, and methodologies for simulations and slope stability analysis. The book also addresses landslide impacts and risk management strategies, covering vulnerability assessment, risk analysis, environmental consequences, prevention, mitigation strategies, and community engagement. Advancing science and future directions in landslide research are explored, including trends in landslide occurrence, early warning systems, technological innovations, and remaining challenging issues in landslide science. This comprehensive guide offers valuable insights and strategies for understanding, assessing, and managing landslides for a more resilient future.

  • Oil Spill Science and Technology

    • 3rd Edition
    • Merv Fingas
    • English
    Oil Spill Science and Technology, Third Edition delivers a multi-contributed view on the entire chain of oil-spill related topics from oil properties and behaviors to remote sensing through the management side of contingency planning and communicating oil spill risk perceptions. This new edition compiles information on oil spills from a scientific point of view and with new case studies and examples. This book aims to serve both as an authoritative reference for individuals new to the field who need to understand the depth of science going into the fields of oil spill, recovery, assessment, and analysis, as well as those who have years of experience.Written by over 24 experts in the field, this updated edition combines technology with case studies to identify the current state of knowledge surrounding oil spills that will encourage additional areas of research that are left to uncover in this critical sector of the energy industry.

  • Hazards, Risks, and Disasters in Society

    • 1st Edition
    • Andrew E. Collins + 4 more
    • English
    Hazards, Risks, and Disasters in Society provides analyses of environmentally related catastrophes within society in historical, political and economic contexts. Personal and corporate culture mediates how people may become more vulnerable or resilient to hazard exposure. Societies that strengthen themselves, or are strengthened, mitigate decline and resultant further exposure to what are largely human induced risks of environmental, social and economic degradation. This book outlines why it is important to explore in more depth the relationships between environmental hazards, risk and disasters in society. It presents challenges presented by mainstream and non-mainstream approaches to the human side of disaster studies. By hazard categories this book includes critical processes and outcomes that significantly disrupt human wellbeing over brief or long time-frames. Whilst hazards, risks and disasters impact society, individuals, groups, institutions and organisations offset the effects by becoming strong, healthy, resilient, caring and creative. Innovations can arise from social organisation in times of crisis. This volume includes much of use to practitioners and policy makers needing to address both prevention and response activities. Notably, as people better engage prevalent hazards and risks they exercise a process that has become known as disaster risk reduction (DRR). In a context of climatic risks this is also indicative of climate change adaptation (CCA). Ultimately it represents the quest for development of sustainable environmental and societal futures. Throughout the book cases studies are derived from the world of hazards risks and disasters in society.

  • Volcanic Hazards, Risks and Disasters

    • 1st Edition
    • Paolo Papale + 1 more
    • English
    Volcanic Hazards, Risks, and Disasters provides you with the latest scientific developments in volcano and volcanic research, including causality, impacts, preparedness, risk analysis, planning, response, recovery, and the economics of loss and remediation. It takes a geoscientific approach to the topic while integrating the social and economic issues related to volcanoes and volcanic hazards and disasters. Throughout the book case studies are presented of historically relevant volcanic and seismic hazards and disasters as well as recent catastrophes, such as Chile’s Puyehue volcano eruption in June 2011.

  • Landslide Hazards, Risks, and Disasters

    • 1st Edition
    • John F. Shroder + 1 more
    • English
    Landslides are the most costly geo-hazard in the world, and they’re often the cause or the result of other hazards and disasters such as tsunamis, earthquakes, wildfires, and volcanic eruptions. Landslide Hazards, Risks, and Disasters makes a close and detailed examination of major mass movements and provides measures for more thorough and accurate monitoring, prediction, preparedness, and prevention. It takes a geoscientific approach to the topic while also discussing the impacts human-induced causes such as deforestation, blasting, and building construction—undersc... the multi-disciplinary nature of the topic.

  • Quantifying and Controlling Catastrophic Risks

    • 1st Edition
    • B. John Garrick
    • English
    The perception, assessment and management of risk are increasingly important core principles for determining the development of both policy and strategic responses to civil and environmental catastrophes. Whereas these principles were once confined to some areas of activity i.e. financial and insurance, they are now widely used in civil and environmental engineering. Comprehensive and readable, Civil and Environmental Risk: Mitigation and Control, provides readers with the mathematical tools and quantitative methods for determining the probability of a catastrophic event and mitigating and controlling the aftermath. With this book engineers develop the required skills for accurately assessing risk and formulating appropriate response strategies. The two part treatment starts with a clear and rigorous exposition of the quantitative risk assessment process, followed by self-contained chapters concerning applications. One of the first books to address both natural and human generated disasters, topics include events such as pandemic diseases, climate changes, major hurricanes, super earthquakes, mega tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, industrial accidents and terrorist attacks. Case studies appear at the end of the book allowing engineers to see how these principles are applied to scenarios such as a super hurricane or mega tsunamis, a reactor core melt down in a nuclear plant, a terrorist attack on the national electric grid, and an abrupt climate change brought about by a change in the ocean currents in the North Atlantic. Written by the current Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board, Environmental risk managers will find this reference a valuable and authoritative guide both in accurately calculating risk and its applications in their work.

  • Chemical Bioavailability in Terrestrial Environments

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 32
    • English
    This book begins with an overview of current thinking on bioavailability, its definition, cutting-edge research in speciation and advancement in tools for assessing chemical bioavailability in the terrestrial environment. The second section of the book focuses on the role of chemical speciation in bioavailability. Section three addresses bioavailability and ecotoxicity of contaminants and leads into the next section on bioavailability of nutrients and agrichemicals. Subsequent sections provide an overview of tools currently being used and new cutting-edge techniques to assess contaminant bioavailability. The last section of the book builds on previous sections in relating bioavailability to risk assessment and how this could be used for managing risks associated with contaminated land.

  • Pesticide Risk Assessment in Rice Paddies: Theory and Practice

    • 1st Edition
    • Ettore Capri + 1 more
    • English
    Rice is cultivated throughout the world under submerged conditions. The high water requirements and the heavy pesticide load used in rice paddies worldwide have resulted in contamination of associated surface water, such as streams, ditches, rivers and lakes. The uniform risk assessment approach which has been developed for other crops is not applicable to rice paddies, because of the specific conditions applied to rice cultivation. Pesticide Risk Assessment in Rice Paddies: Theory and Practice fills the gap in information on this subject. Written by experts, this book summarizes the methods used for pesticide risk assessment in rice paddies, the limitations and problems encountered and future developments. It also examines the various agronomic, pesticide application and risk assessment approaches used in different rice cultivated zones in Asia, America and Europe and is an essential reference for those working in this area.

  • Sediment Risk Management and Communication

    Sustainable Management of Sediment Resources (SEDNET), Volume 3
    • 1st Edition
    • Susanne Heise
    • English
    In dynamic river systems, effective and sustainable risk management of sediments, contaminants and their sources must be carried out on a river basin scale. A diversity of interests and risk perceptions, whether environmental, economical, or personal, as well as the broad variety of uses and functions of river systems can lead to conflicts and disagreements about how and where river systems should be managed. This requires a transparent methodology to assess environmental risks in the river basin, followed by a prioritisation of those sites where measures would yield the highest positive effect for the river basin and where financial resources could be allocated most efficiently. However, risk perceptions may only partially be influenced by scientific assessments of risk, and often also depend on a variety of factors such as personal experience and confidence in institutions. Risk managers must develop methods to balance technical and socioeconomic issues with the aim to reduce risks posed by sediments to environmental and economic resources to a level that is perceived as tolerable by society. Sediment Risk Management and Communication (Vol.3 in the SEDNET mini-series) is based on discussions that were held in the working group on "Risk Management and Communication" which was one of 4 working groups within the European Demand-Driven Sediment Research Network "SedNet". It aims to analyse the current situation in Europe with regard to sediment risk management issues, to draw conclusions from this analysis and to offer recommendations for sustainable risk management from basin to site-specific scale. This volume also available as part of a 4-volume set, ISBN 0444519599. Discount price for set purchase.