TY - BOOK ID - 8236057 TI - Geomorphological hazards and disaster prevention AU - Alcántara, Irasema AU - Goudie, Andrew PY - 2010 SN - 9780521769259 0521769256 9780511807527 9781107414785 1107414784 1316171507 1139245643 051180752X PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Natural disasters. KW - Geomorphology. KW - Hazardous geographic environments. KW - Hazardous geographic environments KW - Natural disasters KW - Risk assessment. KW - Prevention. KW - Natural calamities KW - Disasters KW - Environments, Hazardous geographic KW - Human ecology KW - Geomorphic geology KW - Physiography KW - Physical geography KW - Landforms KW - Geografie KW - Fysische geografie KW - Geomorfologie KW - Algemeen. KW - Geomorphology KW - Risk assessment KW - Prevention KW - Environmental Sciences KW - Atmospheric Science UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8236057 AB - Human activities have had a huge impact on the environment and landscape, through industrialisation and land-use change, leading to climate change, deforestation, desertification, land degradation, and 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. ER -