Overview
- A fascinating overview of the diverse types of extreme event
- Reveals the common roots of these phenomena
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: The Frontiers Collection (FRONTCOLL)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Extreme Events: Magic, Mysteries, and Challenges
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Scenarios
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Front Matter
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Prevention, Precaution, and Avoidance
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Significant, and usually unwelcome, surprises, such as floods, financial crisis, epileptic seizures, or material rupture, are the topics of Extreme Events in Nature and Society. The book, authored by foremost experts in these fields, reveals unifying and distinguishing features of extreme events, including problems of understanding and modelling their origin, spatial and temporal extension, and potential impact. The chapters converge towards the difficult problem of anticipation: forecasting the event and proposing measures to moderate or prevent it. Extreme Events in Nature and Society will interest not only specialists, but also the general reader eager to learn how the multifaceted field of extreme events can be viewed as a coherent whole.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Sergio Albeverio: Studied mathematics and physics; professorships and research positions at several universities (in Europe, USA, Russia, Japan, China); now professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Director of Interdisciplinary Center for Complex Systems at the University of Bonn.
Volker Jentsch: Studied physics and geophysics; worked in Max Planck Institutes, universities and scientific administration; now co-director at the Interdisciplinary Center for Complex Systems at the University of Bonn.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Extreme Events in Nature and Society
Editors: Sergio Albeverio, Volker Jentsch, Holger Kantz
Series Title: The Frontiers Collection
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-28611-X
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-28610-3Published: 16 December 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-06679-5Published: 12 February 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-28611-0Published: 18 February 2006
Series ISSN: 1612-3018
Series E-ISSN: 2197-6619
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 352
Number of Illustrations: 115 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Complex Systems, Applications of Mathematics, Meteorology, Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods, Math. Appl. in Environmental Science, Physics, general