Risk and uncertainty assessment for natural hazards / [edited by] Jonathan Rougier, Steve Sparks, Lisa J. Hill.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rougier, Jonathan, 1966- editor.

Hill, Lisa J., editor.

Sparks, R. S. J. (Robert Stephen John), 1949- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Natural disasters.

Risk assessment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 574 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Risk & Uncertainty Assessment for Natural Hazards

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Assessment of risk and uncertainty is crucial for natural hazard risk management, facilitating risk communication and informing strategies to successfully mitigate our society's vulnerability to natural disasters. Written by some of the world's leading experts, this book provides a state-of-the-art overview of risk and uncertainty assessment in natural hazards. It presents the core statistical concepts using clearly defined terminology applicable across all types of natural hazards and addresses the full range of sources of uncertainty, the role of expert judgement and the practice of uncertainty elicitation. The core of the book provides detailed coverage of all the main hazard types and concluding chapters address the wider societal context of risk management. This is an invaluable compendium for academic researchers and professionals working in the fields of natural hazards science, risk assessment and management and environmental science and will be of interest to anyone involved in natural hazards policy.

Contents:

Risk assessment and uncertainty in natural hazards / L.J. Hill, R.S.J. Sparks and J.C. Rougier

Quantifying hazard losses / J.C. Rougier

Model and data limitations: the sources and implications of epistemic uncertainty / J.C. Rougier and K.J. Beven

Quantifying scientific uncertainty from expert judgement elicitation / W.P. Aspinall and R.M. Cooke

Risk and uncertainty in hydrometeorological hazards / T.L. Edwards and P.G. Challenor

Hydrometeorological hazards under future climate change / T.L. Edwards

Flood risk and uncertainty / J. Freer, K.J. Beven, J. Neal, G. Schumann, J. Hall and P. Bates

Scientific uncertainties: a perspective from probabilistic seismic hazard assessments for low-seismicity areas / W.P. Aspinall

Landslide and avalanche hazards / T.K. Hincks, W.P. Aspinall, R.S.J. Sparks, E.A. Holcombe and M. Kern

Tsunami hazard and risk / T.K. Hincks, R.S.J. Sparks and W.P. Aspinall

Risk and uncertainty assessment of volcanic hazards / R.S.J. Sparks, W.P. Aspinall, H.S. Crosweller and T.K. Hincks

Risk assessment and management of wildfires / T.K. Hincks, B.D. Malamud, R.S.J. Sparks, M.J. Wooster and T.J. Lynham

Catastrophic impacts of natural hazards on technological facilities and infrastructure / R.S.J. Sparks, W.P. Aspinall, N.A. Chapman, B.E. Hill, D.J. Kerridge, J. Pooley and C.A. Taylor

Statistical aspects of risk characterisation in ecotoxicology / G.L. Hickey and A. Hart

Social science perspectives on natural hazards risk and uncertainty / S.E. Cornell and M.S. Jackson

Natural hazards and risk: the human perspective / H.S. Crosweller and J. Wilmshurst.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-23431-X

1-107-30124-6

1-108-44667-1

1-107-30546-2

1-107-30852-6

1-107-31407-0

1-107-30632-9

1-139-04756-6

1-299-25715-1

OCLC:

828302535