Assessing Volcanic Hazard
P ublished online September 2017 .
Article. Subjects: Natural Disasters (Environmental Science); Geology and the Lithosphere; Geophysics. 26578 words.
Volcanoes represent complex geological systems capable of generating many dangerous phenomena. To evaluate and manage volcanic risk, we need first to assess volcanic hazard (i.e., identify...
Assessment and Adaptation to Climate Change Related Flood Risks
in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Natural Hazard Science
Article. Subjects: Social Impact of Environmental Issues (Environmental Science); Natural Disasters (Environmental Science); Climate Change. 446 words.
This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Natural Hazard Science. Please check back later for the full article.
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Climate Change Adaptation
in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Climate Science
P ublished online February 2017 .
Article. Subjects: Natural Disasters (Environmental Science). 11889 words.
Climate change adaptation is the ability of a society or a natural system to adjust to the (changing) conditions that support life in a certain climate region, including weather extremes in...
Climate Change Communication and Indigenous Publics
in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Climate Science
P ublished online September 2017 .
Article. Subjects: Earth Sciences and Geography; Natural Disasters (Environmental Science); Communication Studies. 12576 words.
Indigenous experiences with climate change have become increasingly visible through media stories of rising sea levels, heavy storms, and coastal erosion due to climate change in places as...
Climatology of Flooding in the United States
in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Natural Hazard Science
P ublished online March 2017 .
Article. Subjects: Natural Disasters (Environmental Science). 15362 words.
Flood losses in the United States have increased dramatically over the course of the past century, averaging US$7.96 billion in damages per year for the 30-year period ranging from 1985 to...
Communicating Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience
in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Climate Science
P ublished online September 2017 .
Article. Subjects: Natural Disasters (Environmental Science); Communication Studies; Earth Sciences and Geography. 10920 words.
Communicating the impacts of climate change and possible adaptive responses is a relatively recent branch of the larger endeavor of climate change communication. This recent emergence, in...
Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change
in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Climate Science
P ublished online March 2017 .
Article. Subjects: Earth Sciences and Geography; Natural Disasters (Environmental Science). 9423 words.
Community-based adaptation (CBA) to climate change is an approach to adaptation that aims to include vulnerable people in the design and implementation of adaptation measures. The most...
Debris-Flow Risk Assessment
in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Natural Hazard Science
P ublished online August 2016 .
Article. Subjects: Social Impact of Environmental Issues (Environmental Science); Natural Disasters (Environmental Science). 12240 words.
Debris flows are one of the most destructive landslide processes worldwide, given their ubiquity in mountainous areas occupied by human settlement or industrial facilities around the world....
Disaster and Response in an Experiment Called New Orleans, 1700s–2000s
in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Natural Hazard Science
P ublished online March 2016 .
Article. Subjects: Natural Disasters (Environmental Science); Social Impact of Environmental Issues (Environmental Science). 17132 words.
As an urbanized river-dominated delta, New Orleans, Louisiana, ranks among the most experimental of cities, a test of whether the needs of a stable human settlement can coexist with the...
Earthquake Risk Assessment
P ublished online September 2017 .
Article. Subjects: Natural Disasters (Environmental Science); Geology and the Lithosphere; Geophysics. 14205 words.
This article discusses the importance of assessing and estimating the risk of earthquakes. It begins with an overview of earthquake prediction and relevant terms, namely: earthquake hazard,...
