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100	1		_aALCANTARA-AYALA Irasema (editor.)
245			_aGeomorphological hazards and disaster prevention / _cIrasema Alcantara-Ayala
260			_a[Place not identified] : _bCambridge Univ Pr, _c2010
250			_a1st ed.
300			_axi, 291 pages : illustration , maps ; 25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
504			_aOnline version of the print title.
520			_aHuman activities have had a huge impact on the environment and landscape, through industrialization and land-use change, leading to climate change, deforestation, desertification, land degradation, air and water pollution. These impacts are strongly linked to the occurrence of geomorphological hazards, such as floods, landslides, snow avalanches, soil erosion, and others. Geomorphological work includes not only the understanding but the mapping and modelling of Earth's surface processes, many of which directly affect human societies. In addition, geomorphologists are becoming increasingly involved with the dimensions of societal problem solving, through vulnerability analysis, hazard and risk assessment and management. The work of geomorphologists is therefore of prime importance for disaster prevention. An international team of geomorphologists have contributed their expertise to this volume, making this a scientifically rigorous work for a wide audience of geomorphologists and other Earth scientists, including those involved in environmental science, hazard and risk assessment, management and policy.
650			_aNATURAL DISASTERS
650			_aGEOMOR
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