Progress of Geo-Disaster Mitigation Technology in Asia

Progress of Geo-Disaster Mitigation Technology in Asia edited by Fawu Wang, Masakatsu Miyajima, Tonglu Li, Wei SHAN, Teuku Faisal Fathani.

This book includes the recent 10-year achievement of geo-disaster mitigation by leading Asian scientists from Japan, China, Indonesia, Korea, Iran and Far East of Russia. Case studies on recent occurred geo-disasters in Asian region have been presented. The forming mechanics of hazards such as earth...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Wang, Fawu (Editor), Miyajima, Masakatsu (Editor), Li, Tonglu (Editor), SHAN, Wei (Editor), Fathani, Teuku Faisal (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Edition:1st ed. 2013.
Series:Environmental Science,
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Natural disasters.
Environmental sciences.
Physical geography.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
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Table of Contents:
  • Damage by the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami
  • Geological prerequisites for landslide dams' disaster assessment and mitigation in Central Asia
  • Social benefits of landslide prevention and mitigation in Hong Kong, China
  • Advances of geo-disaster mitigation technologies in Taiwan
  • The mechanisms for initiation and motion of Chinese loess landslides
  • Geo-disaster and its mitigation in Nepal
  • Hybrid socio-technical approach for landslide risk reduction in Indonesia
  • Damage and recovery from the 1999 Chichi Earthquake in Taiwan
  • Key factors influencing the mechanism of rapid and long runout landslides triggered by the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, China
  • Strong ground motion prediction for scenario earthquakes
  • Stability analysis of loess slopes based on reliability concepts
  • Loess deposit and loess landslides on the Chinese loess plateau.

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