Solutions to Coastal Disasters 2005

Solutions to Coastal Disasters 2005
Author: Louise Wallendorf
Publisher:
Total Pages: 848
Release: 2005
Genre: Nature
ISBN:

This collection contains 80 papers presented at the Solutions to Coastal Disasters 2005 Conference, held in Charleston, South Carolina, May 8-11, 2005.

Coastal Disasters and Climate Change in Vietnam

Coastal Disasters and Climate Change in Vietnam
Author: Nguyen Danh Thao
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2014-06-04
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0128004797

Coastal Disasters and Climate Change in Vietnam is the first book to focus specifically on natural hazards and climate change in Vietnam. The book examines threats such as tropical cyclones, sea-level rise, flooding, erosion, and salinity intrusion, and their respective effects on coastal structures and environments. It also looks at crucial management and mitigation efforts, including breakwater design, irrigation systems, coastal dunes and dikes, and more. The challenges faced by this country in the future will have important regional and global repercussions; areas such as the Mekong Delta produce a significant proportion of the world's rice, and coastal impacts on this region will have far-reaching economic and public health effects. This book is an important source of information for government and local policy makers, environmental and climate scientists, and engineers. - Broad coverage of climate challenges specific to the region, including sea-level rise, storms, erosion, and more - Assessments of impact on, and effects of, economic development and port construction - Examination of public policy responses to climate change

Environmentally Friendly Coastal Protection

Environmentally Friendly Coastal Protection
Author: Claus Zimmermann
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2005-05-13
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9781402033001

Coast lines have been and still are the central lines of civilization around the world with still increasing pressure from both sides – the hinterland and the sea – with all its foreseeable and unforeseeable impacts by means of nature or mankind. While the response of nature to such impacts is flexible in the way that all morphological changes with all the consequences are tolerated as part of the system, humanity cannot tolerate short-term or long-term changes without being threatened in its physical and economical existence. The objectives of this Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) on Environmentally Friendly Coastal Structures were: - to contribute to the critical assessment of existing knowledge in the field of coastal and environmental protection; - to identify directions for future research in that area; - to promote close working relationships between scientists from different countries and with different professional experience. The latest trends in research on coastal and environmental protection were summarized and developed during the meeting. Seventeen papers are presented in this book, attempting to cover all related aspects as completely as possible – coast, engineering structures, water, sediments, ecosystems in their complicated interaction.

Modelling Coastal Vulnerability

Modelling Coastal Vulnerability
Author: Marcel Marchand
Publisher: IOS Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2009
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1607500698

Models that explore vulnerability under various planned and unplanned conditions hardly exist. This title focuses on the vulnerability of societies in low lying coastal and deltaic environments to tropical cyclonic storms and floods.

Natural Disaster and Coastal Geomorphology

Natural Disaster and Coastal Geomorphology
Author: Shigeko Haruyama
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2016-06-23
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 3319338145

This book deals with the Tsunami intrusion in the lower plain in the Tohoku region and role played by the coastal and fluvial landforms in the damages. The land-use patterns and the recent urbanization has also been partly responsible for a risk level enhancement. The 2011 East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami has violently hit the coastal plain in the Tohoku and Kanto regions. The coastal geomorphology of these regions have played an important role in the impacts of this natural disaster. The authors introduce tectonic settings, explain and assess these different risks, and discuss future disaster prevention and mitigation planning.

Multi-hazard Approaches to Civil Infrastructure Engineering

Multi-hazard Approaches to Civil Infrastructure Engineering
Author: Paolo Gardoni
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 568
Release: 2016-06-22
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3319297139

This collection focuses on the development of novel approaches to address one of the most pressing challenges of civil engineering, namely the mitigation of natural hazards. Numerous engineering books to date have focused on, and illustrate considerable progress toward, mitigation of individual hazards (earthquakes, wind, and so forth.). The current volume addresses concerns related to overall safety, sustainability and resilience of the built environment when subject to multiple hazards: natural disaster events that are concurrent and either correlated (e.g., wind and surge); uncorrelated (e.g., earthquake and flood); cascading (e.g., fire following earthquake); or uncorrelated and occurring at different times (e.g., wind and earthquake). The authors examine a range of specific topics including methodologies for vulnerability assessment of structures, new techniques to reduce the system demands through control systems; instrumentation, monitoring and condition assessment of structures and foundations; new techniques for repairing structures that have suffered damage during past events, or for structures that have been found in need of strengthening; development of new design provisions that consider multiple hazards, as well as questions from law and the humanities relevant to the management of natural and human-made hazards.

Solutions to Coastal Disasters '02

Solutions to Coastal Disasters '02
Author: Lesley Ewing
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1056
Release: 2002
Genre: Nature
ISBN:

This collection contains 83 papers presented at the Solutions to Coastal Disasters 2002 Conference, held in San Diego, California, February 24-27, 2002.

Coastal Engineering 2004 - Proceedings Of The 29th International Conference (In 4 Vols)

Coastal Engineering 2004 - Proceedings Of The 29th International Conference (In 4 Vols)
Author: Jane Mckee Smith
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 4836
Release: 2005-04-08
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9814480525

This comprehensive and up-to-date volume contains 367 papers presented at the 29th International Conference on Coastal Engineering, held in Lisbon, Portugal, 19-24 September 2004. It is divided into five parts: waves; long waves, nearshore currents, and swash; sediment transport and morphology; coastal management, beach nourishment, and dredging; coastal structures. The contributions cover a broad range of topics including theory, numerical and physical modeling, field measurements, case studies, design, and management. Coastal Engineering 2004 provides engineers, scientists, and planners state-of-the-art information on coastal engineering and coastal processes.The proceedings have been selected for coverage in: