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Risk Science and Sustainability

Science for Reduction of Risk and Sustainable Development of Society

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  • © 2003

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Editors:
  1. Tom Beer

    1. CSIRO Environmental Risk Network, Aspendale, Australia

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  2. Alik Ismail-Zadeh

    1. International Institute of Earthquake Prediction Theory and Mathematical Geophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
      Geophysikalisches Institut, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany

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Part of the book series: NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry (NAII, volume 112)

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. The Globalisation of Risk in the XXIst Century

    • Jean-Patrick Connerade
    Pages 1-7

  3. Risk and Sustainability in Water Resources Management

    • Uri Shamir
    Pages 9-14

  4. Aids to Decision-Making in Risk Management

    • J.-P. Massué
    Pages 15-19

  5. Science and Risk: Scientific Authority at Risk

    • Geneviève Schméder
    Pages 21-27

  6. Basic Science for Prediction and Reduction of Geological Disasters

    • Vladimir I. Keilis-Borok
    Pages 29-38

  7. Environmental Risk and Sustainability

    • Tom Beer
    Pages 39-61

  8. Science for Risk Reduction and Sustainable Development: The Role of Law

    • John Paterson
    Pages 63-76

  9. Sustainable Development and Risk Evaluation: Challenges and Possible New Methodologies

    • Alexander Makarenko
    Pages 77-90

  10. On Predictability of Homicide Surges in Megacities

    • Vladimir I. Keilis-Borok, David J. Gascon, Alexander A. Soloviev, Michael D. Intriligator, R. Pichardo, Fedor E. Winberg
    Pages 91-110

  11. Earthquakes and Megacities

    • Friedemann Wenzel, F. Bendimerad
    Pages 111-125

  12. Earth Sciences Contribution to the Sustainable Development of Ground Transportation Systems: Relevant Case Studies in Central Europe

    • Giuliano F. Panza, Mihaela Kouteva
    Pages 127-148

  13. Modelling of Stress and Seismicity in the South-Eastern Carpathians

    • Alik T. Ismail-Zadeh
    Pages 149-162

  14. Earthquake Loss Estimation for India Based on Macroeconomic Indicators

    • Paula K. Dunbar, Roger G. Bilham, Melinda J. Laituri
    Pages 163-180

  15. Monitors and Methods for Investigation of Submarine Landslides, Seawater Intrusion and Contaminated Groundwater Discharge as Coastal Hazards

    • Leopold I. Lobkovsky, Evgeny A. Kontar, Igor A. Garagash, Yuri R. Ozorovich
    Pages 181-197

  16. Risk of Collective Youth Violence in French Suburbs

    • Lucienne Bui Trong
    Pages 199-221

  17. Lessons from Macrophagic Myofasciitis: Towards Definition of a Vaccine Adjuvant-Related Syndrome

    • Romain K. Gherardi
    Pages 223-224

  18. Flood Risk Management in the Upper Tisza Basin in Hungary

    • Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer, Anna Vári, Zoltan Ferencz
    Pages 225-226

  19. Volcanoes and Cities

    • Grant Heiken
    Pages 227-227

  20. Geo-Risk Management Practices in the Asia Pacific Region

    • Amithirigala W. Jayawardena
    Pages 229-229
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1 AUK ISMAIL-ZADEH ,2, TOM BEER3 1 International Institute of Earthquake Prediction Theory and Mathematical Geophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Warshavskoye shosse 79-2, Moscow 113556, Russia; e-mail: aismail@mitp.ru 2 Geophysikalisches Institut, Universittit Karlsruhe, Hertzstr. 16, Karlsruhe 76187, Germany; e-mail: Alik.Ismail-Zadeh@gpi.uni-karlsruhe.de 3 CSIRO Environmental Risk Network, CSIRO Atmospheric Research, Aspendale, Vic. 3195 Australia; e-mail: Tom.Beer@csiro.au The world faces major threats to the sustainability of our planet. These threats are accompanied by the immediate dangers of natural and man-made disasters. Our vulnerability to them is greatly magnified with each passing year undermining our ability to maintain a sustainable and productive world into the 21st Century and beyond. Both history and common sense teach us that science has a tremendous potential to find ways to cope with these threats. 1 The EUROSCIENCE working group "Science and Urgent Problems of Society" 2 and the IUGG Commission on Geophysical Risk and Sustainability were initiators of the EUROSCIENCE - IUGG Advanced Research Workshop "Science for Reduction of Risk and Sustainable Development of Society" sponsored by the NATO Science Program. The Workshop was held on 15-16 June 2002 in Budapest, Hungary. More than 40 participants from 17 countries took part in the Workshop. Talks and discussions addressed mainly the question of how science can help in reduction of risk and sustainable development of society.

Editors and Affiliations

  • CSIRO Environmental Risk Network, Aspendale, Australia

    Tom Beer

  • International Institute of Earthquake Prediction Theory and Mathematical Geophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

    Alik Ismail-Zadeh

  • Geophysikalisches Institut, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany

    Alik Ismail-Zadeh

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