The book should prove valuable in gaining an insight of natural hazards and their geomorphic relations, which is imperative for prudent environmental planning in coping with disasters.
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The book should prove valuable in gaining an insight of natural hazards and their geomorphic relations, which is imperative for prudent environmental planning in coping with disasters.
Dedication | |
Preface | |
Geomorphology and natural hazards | p. 1 |
Hazards: singularities in geomorphic systems | p. 19 |
The geomorphological dimensions of natural disasters | p. 27 |
Geologic effects of hurricanes | p. 37 |
Natural hazards of shoreline bluff erosion: a case study of Horizon View, Lake Huron | p. 65 |
Geomorphological effects of tsunami run-up and backwash | p. 83 |
Distribution of hazard types in a drainage basin and its relation to geomorphological setting | p. 95 |
Recent climatic change and catastrophic geomorphic processes in mountain environments | p. 107 |
Erroneous perceptions of fluvial hazards | p. 129 |
Geomorphological understanding of floods | p. 139 |
Geomorphic and hydrologic aspects of monsoon floods on the Narmada and Tapi Rivers in central India | p. 157 |
Spatial variations in the magnitude of the 1993 floods, Raccoon River basin, Iowa | p. 169 |
Flooding of property of runoff from agricultural land in northwestern Europe | p. 183 |
Geomorphology applied to flooding problems of closed-basin lakes... specifically Great Salt Lake, Utah | p. 197 |
The landslide hazard in the Himalayas: geological control and human action | p. 221 |
The geomorphology of some debris flows in the southern Sierra Nevada, California | p. 231 |
Lichen dating of coseismic landslide hazards in alpine mountains | p. 253 |
The importance of earthquake-induced landslides to long-term slope erosion and slope-failure hazards in seismically active regions | p. 265 |
Large mid-Holocene and late Pleistocene earthquakes on the Oquirrh fault zone, Utah | p. 285 |
Global warming and permafrost in Eurasia: a catastrophic scenario | p. 317 |
Geological hazards, vulnerability, and risk assessment using GIS: model for Glenwood Springs, Colorado | p. 331 |
The Binghamton Symposia in Geomorphology | p. 355 |
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