Keywords:
Environmental risk assessment-Congresses.
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
This volume focuses on different aspects of risk management. The themes addressed include economic, technical and social issues related to disaster impact, risk analysis and assessment, risk perception and aversion, risk dialogue and sustainable risk management.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (266 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781134144235
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=5851043
DDC:
333.714
Language:
English
Note:
Book Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Disaster risk management and risk impact -- Risk concept, integral risk management and risk governance -- Risk based regulation -- Emerging risks and risk management policies in selected OECD countries -- Vulnerability analysis, livelihoods and disasters -- Crisis intervention and risk reduction -- Risk perception, aversion, risk levels -- Risk aversion - A delicate issue in risk assessment -- Evaluation of risks due to natural hazards. A conceptual approach -- Challenges in defining acceptable risk levels -- Risk as perceived and evaluated by the general public -- Understanding risk perception from natural hazards: Examples from Germany -- The cognitive representation of global risks: Empirical studies -- Gender studies, social and psychological issues in disaster reduction -- Risk analysis, risk management and sustainability -- Post-harvest management strategies, drought vulnerability and food security -- CEDIM-Risk Map Germany: First results -- Efficiency of protection measures -- Application of the marginal cost approach and cost-benefit analysis to measures for avalanche risk reduction - A case study from Davos, Switzerland -- TripelBudgetierung -- Building vulnerability related to floods and debris flows - Case studies -- Management of risks from large landslides: The problems of acceptable and residual risks -- Panarchy and sustainable risk prevention by managing protection forests in mountain areas -- Protective measures and risk management - Basics and examples of avalanche and torrential risks in Switzerland -- The vulnerability of buildings affected by powder avalanches -- Temporal variability of damage potential in settlements - A contribution towards the long-term development of avalanche risk -- Outlook -- List of authors.
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List of speakers and poster presenters (*) -- Author Index.
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