Overview
- Results of the strategies and improving strategies for coping with rising extreme flooding
- Quantification of the damage potential and other socio-economic factors
- New computer-based technologies that contribute to minimizing the risks related to alpine natural hazards
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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In the recent past a marked increase of the damages caused by natural hazard processes has been documented, for example by the Munich Re-Insurance. On a regional scale, a similar development can be observed in mountain regions such as the Alps, where it is particularly a rise in flood events that has caused the maximum amount of economic damage. Three major aspects may help to explain this phenomenon: The changing frequency-magnitude relationship of the natural hazard processes, the multiplication of the damage potential due to the socio-economic change, and the non-adequate way of coping with the changing risk by the official authorities. As a consequence, this book tries to address key questions related to these developments and to give answers to these problems. Question 1: How can the strategies for coping with the rise in extreme flooding be improved? Question 2: How can the damage potential and other socio-economic aspects be quantified? Question 3: How can new computer based technologies contribute to minimizing the risks related to alpine natural hazards? An initial chapter gives an overview of the global change aspects of natural hazards and their related risks. While three chapters outline answers to question 1, four chapters discuss question 2. Five chapters give examples of new technologies.
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“This edited book, which comprises 13 chapters, provides an overview of the projects conducted at alpS–Centre for Natural Hazard and Risk Management during the period 2002-2008. … there is plenty to appeal to those interested in natural hazard management, including the fact that the book provides an overview of some of the German-language literature published in this area. … It would make a useful addition to any university library.” (Des McDougall, Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 30 (3), August, 2010)Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sustainable Natural Hazard Management in Alpine Environments
Editors: Eric Veulliet, Stötter Johann, Hannelore Weck-Hannemann
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03229-5
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-03228-8Published: 14 October 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-42475-5Published: 21 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-03229-5Published: 03 October 2009
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 403
Topics: Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences, Natural Hazards, Physical Geography, Geoecology/Natural Processes, Landscape Ecology, Social Sciences, general