Land-based and marine hazards : scientific and management issues / edited by M.I. El-Sabh ... [et al.].
Material type: TextSeries: Advances in natural and technological hazards research ; v. 7Publication details: Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c1996.Description: vii, 301 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cmISBN:- 0792340647 (hb : acidfree paper)
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"International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, 1990-2000."
Includes bibliographical references.
This volume contains peer review papers that were presented at the international synposium, HAZARDS '93, held in Qingdao, China, im August 1993. The meeting was a contribution to the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR), and as such, sesions covered a broad range of topics, including climatic and atmospheric hazards; marine hazards such as tsunamis, storm surges, sea level variations, water polution, coastal erosion, and river floods; geological hazards and wildfires. Papers were presented on both the scientific aspects of these phenomena as well as the mitigation, management and socioeconomic aspects of disasters. Parers include: 'Natural and technological disaster management' by Denis; ' Governmental measures to mitigate earthquake impacts in Algeria' by Djillali Benouar; ' Unified natural hazard management: lessons from flooding' by Frank H. Thomas; ' On the natural disaster reduction policy and management system in China' by Huating Yang; and ' Managing forest fires: an automatic fire weather station network in China' by Cheng Bang Yu and Jin Xiao Zhong.
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