Risk and uncertainty assessment for natural hazards /
[edited by] Jonathan Rougier, Steve Sparks, Lisa J. Hill.
- xi, 574 p. : illustration, maps ; 26 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Risk assessment and uncertainty in natural hazards / L. J. Hill, R. S. J. Sparks and J. C. Rougier -- Quantifying hazard losses / J. C. Rougier -- Model and data limitations: the sources and implications of epistemic uncertainty / J. C. Rougier and K. J. Beven -- Quantifying scientific uncertainty from expert judgement elicitation / W. P. Aspinall and R. M. Cooke -- Risk and uncertainty in hydrometeorological hazards / T. L. Edwards and P. G. Challenor -- Hydrometeorological hazards under future climate change / T. L. Edwards -- Flood risk and uncertainty / J. Freer, K. J. Beven, J. Neal, G. Schumann, J. Hall and P. Bates -- Scientific uncertainties: a perspective from probabilistic seismic hazard assessments for low-seismicity areas / W. P. Aspinall - Landslide and avalanche hazards / T. K. Hincks, W. P. Aspinall, R. S. J. Sparks, E. A. Holcombe and M. Kern -- Tsunami hazard and risk / T. K. Hincks, R. S. J. Sparks and W. P. Aspinall -- Risk and uncertainty assessment of volcanic hazards / R. S. J. Sparks, W. P. Aspinall, H. S. Crosweller and T. K. Hincks -- Risk assessment and management of wildfires / T. K. Hincks, B. D. Malamud, R. S. J. Sparks, M. J. Wooster and T. J. Lynham -- Catastrophic impacts of natural hazards on technological facilities and infrastructure / R. S. J. Sparks, W. P. Aspinall, N. A. Chapman, B. E. Hill, D. J. Kerridge, J. Pooley and C. A. Taylor -- Statistical aspects of risk characterisation in ecotoxicology / G. L. Hickey and A. Hart -- Social science perspectives on natural hazards risk and uncertainty / S. E. Cornell and M. S. Jackson -- Natural hazards and risk: the human perspective / H. S. Crosweller and J. Wilmshurst.