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Geohazards

Natural and man-made

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  • © 1992

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Editors:
  1. G. J. H. McCall

    1. Liverpool University, Liverpool, UK

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  2. D. J. C. Laming

    1. Herrington Geoscience, Exeter, UK

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  3. S. C. Scott

    1. Geological Hazards Assessment, Mitigation and Information Unit, Department of Geological Sciences, Polytechnic South West, Plymouth, UK

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Natural and man-made hazards: their increasing importance in the end-20th century world

    1. Natural and man-made hazards: their increasing importance in the end-20th century world

      • G. J. H. McCall
      Pages 1-4

  3. Volcanic Hazards

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5
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    2. Volcano risk mitigation through training

      • J. L. Anderson, R. W. Decker
      Pages 7-12

    3. Volunteer Observers Program: a tool for monitoring volcanic and seismic events in the Philippines

      • Perla J. Delos Reyes
      Pages 13-24

    4. Monitoring and warning of volcanic eruptions by remote sensing

      • D. A. Rothery
      Pages 25-32

    5. Volcanic hazards in Colombia and Indonesia: lahars and related phenomena

      • H. Th. Verstappen
      Pages 33-42

    6. The 1985 Nevado del Ruiz eruption: scientific, social, and governmental response and interaction before the event

      • M. L. Hall
      Pages 43-52

    7. Lahars of Cotopaxi Volcano, Ecuador: hazard and risk evaluation

      • Patricia A. Mothes
      Pages 53-63

    8. Seismic monitoring of Lake Nyos, Cameroon, following the gas release disaster of August 1986

      • Alice B. Walker, D. W. Redmayne, C. W. A. Browitt
      Pages 65-79

  6. The ‘Quiet’ Hazards

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 159-159
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    2. Sea-level changes in China—past and future: their impact and countermeasures

      • Wang Sijing, Zhao Xitao
      Pages 161-169

    3. Rising groundwater: a problem of development in some urban areas of the Middle East

      • D. J. George
      Pages 171-182
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About this book

Dorrik A. V. Stow Editor in Chief, Association of Geoscientists for International Development ( AGID) AGIO is particularly pleased to see published this latest hurricanes, floods-that are wreaking havoc, destroying report in its Geosciences in International Development livelihood and lives in some corner of the globe. Series, as a significant contribution to the onset of the UN As geoscientists there are perhaps three concerns that Decade of National Disaster Reduction, and as a mark of should be uppermost in our minds as we join an inter­ AGIO's growing concern over the potential and actual national effort to combat the adverse effects of natural effects of geohazards throughout the developing world. hazards. The first must be to improve our scientific The problem of geohazards is increasing, not because understanding of the nature and causes of such hazards and to work towards more reliable prediction of their the rate of earth processes is accelerating, nor because the voice of the media appears to be paying more and more occurrence and magnitude.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Liverpool University, Liverpool, UK

    G. J. H. McCall

  • Herrington Geoscience, Exeter, UK

    D. J. C. Laming

  • Geological Hazards Assessment, Mitigation and Information Unit, Department of Geological Sciences, Polytechnic South West, Plymouth, UK

    S. C. Scott

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Geohazards

  • Book Subtitle: Natural and man-made

  • Editors: G. J. H. McCall, D. J. C. Laming, S. C. Scott

  • Series Title: AGID Report Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2310-5

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: G.J.H. McCall, D.J.C. Laming and S.C. Scott 1992

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-5020-3Published: 21 April 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-2310-5Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 227

  • Number of Illustrations: 93 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary

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