Book contents
- Risk and Uncertainty Assessment for Natural Hazards
- Risk and Uncertainty Assessment for Natural Hazards
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Risk assessment and uncertainty in natural hazards
- 2 Quantifying hazard losses
- 3 Model and data limitations: the sources and implications of epistemic uncertainty
- 4 Quantifying scientific uncertainty from expert judgement elicitation
- 5 Risk and uncertainty in hydrometeorological hazards
- 6 Hydrometeorological hazards under future climate change
- 7 Flood risk and uncertainty
- 8 Scientific uncertainties: a perspective from probabilistic seismic hazard assessments for low-seismicity areas
- 9 Landslide and avalanche hazards
- 10 Tsunami hazard and risk
- 11 Risk and uncertainty assessment of volcanic hazards
- 12 Risk assessment and management of wildfires
- 13 Catastrophic impacts of natural hazards on technological facilities and infrastructure
- 14 Statistical aspects of risk characterisation in ecotoxicology
- 15 Social science perspectives on natural hazards risk and uncertainty
- 16 Natural hazards and risk: the human perspective
- Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2013
Book contents
- Risk and Uncertainty Assessment for Natural Hazards
- Risk and Uncertainty Assessment for Natural Hazards
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Risk assessment and uncertainty in natural hazards
- 2 Quantifying hazard losses
- 3 Model and data limitations: the sources and implications of epistemic uncertainty
- 4 Quantifying scientific uncertainty from expert judgement elicitation
- 5 Risk and uncertainty in hydrometeorological hazards
- 6 Hydrometeorological hazards under future climate change
- 7 Flood risk and uncertainty
- 8 Scientific uncertainties: a perspective from probabilistic seismic hazard assessments for low-seismicity areas
- 9 Landslide and avalanche hazards
- 10 Tsunami hazard and risk
- 11 Risk and uncertainty assessment of volcanic hazards
- 12 Risk assessment and management of wildfires
- 13 Catastrophic impacts of natural hazards on technological facilities and infrastructure
- 14 Statistical aspects of risk characterisation in ecotoxicology
- 15 Social science perspectives on natural hazards risk and uncertainty
- 16 Natural hazards and risk: the human perspective
- Index
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- Risk and Uncertainty Assessment for Natural Hazards , pp. xi - xiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013