Extreme Environmental Events

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XXIV

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2. Abrupt Climate Change Modeling

   • Gerrit Lohmann

   Pages 1-21

3. Brittle Tectonics: A Non-linear Dynamical System

   • Christopher H. Scholz

   Pages 22-30

4. Climate Change and Agriculture

   • Cynthia Rosenzweig

   Pages 31-41

5. Climate Change, Economic Costs of

   • Richard S. J. Tol

   Pages 42-51

6. Climate Change and Human Health

   • Hartmut Grassl

   Pages 52-65

7. Climate Modeling, Global Warming and Weather Prediction, Introduction to

   • Hartmut Grassl

   Pages 66-67

8. Complexity in Earthquakes, Tsunamis, and Volcanoes, and Forecast, Introduction to

   • William H. K. Lee

   Pages 68-78

9. Crustal Deformation During the Seismic Cycle, Interpreting Geodetic Observations of

   • Rowena Lohman

   Pages 79-94

10. Cryosphere Models

    • Roger G. Barry

    Pages 95-108

11. Dynamic Games with an Application to Climate Change Models

    • Prajit K. Dutta

    Pages 109-125

12. Earthquake Clusters over Multi-dimensional Space, Visualization of

    • David A. Yuen, Witold Dzwinel, Yehuda Ben-Zion, Ben Kadlec

    Pages 126-149

13. Earthquake Damage : Detection and Early Warning in Man-Made Structures

    • Maria I. Todorovska

    Pages 150-174

14. Earthquake Early Warning System in Southern Italy

    • Aldo Zollo, Giovanni Iannaccone, Vincenzo Convertito, Luca Elia, Iunio Iervolino, Maria Lancieri et al.

    Pages 175-201

15. Earthquake Engineering, Non-linear Problems in

    • Mihailo D. Trifunac

    Pages 201-217

16. Earthquake Forecasting and Verification

    • James R. Holliday, John B. Rundle, Donald L. Turcotte

    Pages 218-229

17. Earthquake Location , Direct, Global-Search Methods

    • Anthony Lomax, Alberto Michelini, Andrew Curtis

    Pages 230-254

18. Earthquake Magnitude

    • Peter Bormann, Joachim Saul

    Pages 255-277

19. Earthquake Monitoring and Early Warning Systems

    • William H. K. Lee, Yih-Min Wu

    Pages 278-311

20. Earthquake Networks , Complex

    • Sumiyoshi Abe, Norikazu Suzuki

    Pages 312-319

Extreme Environmental Events is an authoritative single source for understanding and applying the basic tenets of complexity and systems theory, as well as the tools and measures for analyzing complex systems, to the prediction, monitoring, and evaluation of major natural phenomena affecting life on earth. These phenomena are often highly destructive, and include earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, climate change, and weather. Early warning, damage, and the immediate response of human populations to these phenomena are also covered from the point of view of complexity and nonlinear systems. In 61 authoritative, state-of-the art articles, world experts in each field apply such tools and concepts as fractals, cellular automata, solitons game theory, network theory, and statistical physics to an understanding of these complex geophysical phenomena.

• climate change

“Forecasting and early warning of natural hazards has been in the news over the last several years, particularly in Japan (earthquake and tsunami early warning and forecasting after the March 2011 magnitude 9 Eastern Japan earthquake), Chile  (tsunami warning after the February 2010 magnitude 8.8 earthquake and tsunami off the coast of Chile) and the United States (after a series of tornadoes in the Central and eastern United States and the startup of the development of a earthquake early warning system for California, Oregon and Washington).  The two volume set Extreme Environmental Events and Complexity in Forecasting and Early Warning Selected Entries from the Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science is a professional level reference that provides a basic background on climate change, earthquake forecasting and early warning, tsunami forecasting and warning and volcanic hazard forecasting and warning.  It also contains a number of papers on highly technical issues such as the location and modeling of earthquakes and tsunamis and the modeling of volcanic tremors.  The set covers topics from economic impact of climate change to use of earthquake early warning in Italy and Japan.  Each paper in the set contains a glossary that allows the reader to easily follow what the authors are trying to convey without getting distracted by terms that may have different meanings or uses in different disciplines. 

“I found that the set was a great introduction to the subject matter but was somewhat unbalanced in the selection of papers.  I did not find any papers on the economic, agricultural or human health impacts of volcanic eruptions, tsunamis or earthquakes.  A few papers covering such topics like what was covered for climate change would have been most welcome.  Overall, the setExtreme Environmental Events and Complexity in Forecasting and Early Warning Selected Entries from the Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science would be a welcome addition to any university library.”-- Robert Anderson, Alfred E. Alquist Seismic Safety Commission, Sacramento, CA, USA, May 2012

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  Robert A. Meyers

Dr. Meyers has more than 20 patents and 50 technical papers in the fields of photochemistry, pollution control, inorganic reactions, organic reactions, luminescence phenomena and polymers. He has published in primary literature journals including Science and the Journal of the American Chemical Society, and is listed in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in the World. Dr Meyers’ scientific achievements have been reviewed in feature articles in the popular press in publications such as The New York Times Science Supplement and The Wall Street Journal as well as more specialized publications such as Chemical Engineering and Coal Age. A public service film was produced by the Environmental Protection Agency of Dr. Meyers' chemical desulfurization invention for air pollution control.

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