Natural disasters

As the population is growing and urbanization is progressing, higher numbers of people are exposed to disaster risks, especially in the developing countries.

This book discusses the need for entrepreneurship for sustainable development from the perspective of Asia, the fastest growing region in the world.

The recent understandings about global earth mechanics are widely based on huge amounts of monitoring data accumulated using global networks of precise seismic stations, satellite monitoring of gravity, very large baseline interferometry, and the Global Positioning System.

The book provides an understanding about the disaster impacts, vulnerability assessment, adaptation pathways and mitigation for strengthening the resilience of the society to various hazards.

This book presents the challenges of developing countries to understand and manage the risks of extreme natural events.

The Bay of Bengal is prone to tropical cyclones and storm surges as a result of its location, and many of the mostly poor people living along the coastal regions of South Asia lose their lives almost every year.

The world has spent the majority of 2020 enduring an unpreceded crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

In April 2016, a series of earthquakes hit the Kumamoto area of Kyushu Island, southwest Japan.

This book provides a new framework for analysis of slope nonlinear stochastic seismic dynamic response based on the new theoretical tool of stochastic dynamics.

This book introduces an integrated conceptual framework of the China Seismic Experimental Site (CSES), describes its scientific challenges and research priorities, and reports preliminary results coming out of observational infrastructure in seismology, tectonophysics, geodesy, geophysics and geochemistry.

The management of data to understand complex and interwoven processes of sustainable development has been a great challenge for researchers, planners, and decision makers.

This book aims to provide insight into how Southeast Asian countries have responded to disasters, recovered, and rebuilt.

This book presents the select proceedings of the Virtual Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (VCDRR 2021).

Geospatial technology is a combination of state-of-the-art remote sensing and technology for geographic information systems (GIS) and global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) for the mapping and monitoring of landscapes and environment.

This book discusses the impact of climate change, land use and land cover, and socio-economic dynamics on landslides in Asian countries.

The world is currently experiencing changes in climate and environment that often lead to natural disasters.

COVID-19 has made differential impacts on countries and communities around the world.

This book presents the select proceedings of the Virtual Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (VCDRR 2021).

This book highlights the current issues, challenges, and priorities for climate change adaptation in the ten member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

This volume presents select papers presented at the 7th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics.

This volume presents select papers presented at the 7th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics.

This book presents the select proceedings of the Virtual Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (VCDRR 2021).

This book summarizes the achievements and experience of the Yangtze River rehabilitation and protection, analyzes the new situation and requirements of the Yangtze River rehabilitation and protection, and discusses the main issues and their solution alternatives for the Yangtze River rehabilitation and protection efforts.

This book provides an introduction to the critical role of ecosystem-based disaster risk resilience (Eco-DRR) for building community resilience to multiple environmental risks such as rising heat, water stress, and pollution.

Globally, concerns for the environment and human well-being have increased as results of threats imposed by climate change and disasters, environmental degradation, pollution of natural resources, water scarcity and proliferation of slums.

This book presents the select proceedings of the Virtual Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (VCDRR 2021).

This book comprehensively illustrates the elemental processes of vesiculation and crystallization recorded in volcanic products on the basis of the equilibrium and non-equilibrium theories.

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This book focuses on the mechanical properties and permeability of coal, and the gas flow in coal seams.

This book outlines methodologies to estimate the economic impacts of natural disasters based on business surveys conducted after large disasters in Japan.

The book highlights the root cause of human trafficking and analyses how factors of vulnerability affect the marginalized, especially during and after a disaster.

This volume brings together contributions from world renowned researchers and practitioners  in the field of geotechnical engineering.

Technological advances have helped to enhance disaster resilience through better risk reduction, response, mitigation, rehabilitation and reconstruction.

This book analyzes recent advances, trends, challenges and potentials of the role of media in disaster risk reduction.

This volume presents select papers presented at the 7th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics.

This volume presents select papers presented at the 7th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics.

This volume presents select papers presented at the 7th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics.

This book explores how climate change and disaster risks threaten human security in Asia.

This book presents and discusses a strategy which includes four approaches to dealing with the risk of sea-level rise and other water hazards.

This book presents selected papers from the 3rd Global Summit of Research Institutes for Disaster Risk Reduction - Expanding the Platform for Bridging Science and Policy Making, which was held at the Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI), Kyoto University, Uji Campus from 19 to 21 March 2017.

This book explains the physics behind seismic ground motions and seismic waves to graduate and upper undergraduate students as well as to professionals.

This book is highly informative and carefully presented, providing scientific insights into the flood resources utilization in the Yangtze River Basin both for scholars and decision-makers.

The first edition of this monograph, presenting accurate and efficient simulations of seismic damage to buildings and cities, has received significant attention from the research community.

This book, for the first time, introduces comprehensively all main topics of lifeline earthquake engineering, including the structure analysis, network evaluation, and network design.

This book explains in an easy-to-understand manner the "e;check"e; points to keep in mind when inspecting various social infrastructure structures.

This book collects a series of review articles summarizing the outcomes of collaborative research projects on the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake and the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, two of the largest and most disastrous earthquakes in Asia in the last two decades.

This book focuses on mathematical theory and numerical simulation related to various areas of continuum mechanics, such as fracture mechanics, (visco)elasticity, optimal shape design, modelling of earthquakes and Tsunami waves, material structure, interface dynamics and complex systems.

This book provides insight on how disaster risk management can increase the resilience of society to various natural hazards.

The recent explosion of global and regional seismicity data in the world requires new methods of investigation of microseismicity and development of their modelling to understand the nature of whole earth mechanics.

This book presents a case study-based analysis of the consequences of external interventions, critically evaluating them from community perspectives.