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Given the tremendous toll in human lives and attendant economic losses, it is appropriate that scientists are working hard to understand better earthquakes, with the aim of forecasting and, ultimately, predicting them. In the last decades increasing attention has been paid to the coseismic effects on the natural environment, creating a solid base of empirical data for the estimation of source parameters of strong earthquakes based on geological observations. The recently introduced INQUA scale (Environmental Seismic Intensity-ESI 2007 Scale) of macroseismic intensity clearly shows how the systematic study of earthquake surface faulting, coseismic liquefaction, tsunami deposits and other primary and secondary ground effects can be integrated with 'traditional' seismological and tectonic information to provide a better understanding of the seismicity level of an area and the associated hazards. At the moment this is the only scientific means of equating the seismic records to the seismic cycle time-spans extending the seismic catalogues even to tens of thousands of years, improving future seismic hazard analyses. This Special Publication covers some of the latest multidisciplinary work undertaken to achieve that aim. Eighteen papers from research groups from all continents address a wide range of topics related both to palaeoseismological studies and assessment of macroseismic intensity based only on the natural phenomena associated with an earthquake.

Seismizität. --- Paläoseismologie. --- Neotektonik. --- Naturkatastrophe. --- Morphotektonik. --- Erdbebenvorhersage. --- Paleoseismology. --- Earthquake prediction. --- Erdbebengefahr.

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Erdbeben. --- Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011 --- Fukushima daiichi genshiryoku hatsudensho jiko. --- GAU --- Higashinihon daishinsai. --- Naturkatastrophe. --- Reaktorunfall. --- Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, Japan, 2011 --- Social aspects. --- Social aspects. --- Fukushima.

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"Film has taken a powerful position alongside the global environmental movement, from didactic documentaries to the fantasy pleasures of commercial franchises. This book investigates in particular film's complex role in representing ecological traumas. Eco-trauma cinema represents the harm we, as humans, inflict upon our natural surroundings, or the injuries we sustain from nature in its unforgiving iterations. The term encompasses both circumstances because these seemingly distinct instances of ecological harm are often related, and even symbiotic: the traumas we perpetuate in an ecosystem through pollution and unsustainable resource management inevitably return to harm us. Contributors to this volume engage with eco-trauma cinema in its three general forms: accounts of people who are traumatized by the natural world, narratives that represent people or social processes which traumatize the environment or its species, and stories that depict the aftermath of ecological catastrophe. The films they examine represent a central challenge of our age: to overcome our disavowal of environmental crises, to reflect on the unsavoury forces reshaping the planet's ecosystems, and to restructure the mechanisms responsible for the state of the earth. "--

Nature in motion pictures. --- Ecology in motion pictures. --- Environmental protection and motion pictures. --- Social science --- Performing arts --- Nature --- Media Studies. --- Film & Video --- General. --- Ecology. --- Naturkatastrophe --- Ökologie --- Umweltschutz --- Bibel

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Over a span of thirty years in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the French Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe endured natural catastrophes from all the elements--earth, wind, fire, and water--as well as a collapsing sugar industry, civil unrest, and political intrigue. These disasters thrust a long history of societal and economic inequities into the public sphere as officials and citizens weighed the importance of social welfare, exploitative economic practices, citizenship rights, racism, and governmental responsibility. Paradise Destroyed explores the impact of natural and man-made disasters in the turn-of-the-century French Caribbean, examining the social, economic, and political implications of shared citizenship in times of civil unrest. French nationalists projected a fantasy of assimilation onto the Caribbean, where the predominately nonwhite population received full French citizenship and governmental representation. When disaster struck in the faraway French West Indies--whether the whirlwinds of a hurricane or a vast workers' strike--France faced a tempest at home as politicians, journalists, and economists, along with the general population, debated the role of the French state not only in the Antilles but in their own lives as well. Environmental disasters brought to the fore existing racial and social tensions and held to the fire France's ideological convictions of assimilation and citizenship. Christopher M. Church shows how France's 'old colonies' laid claim to a definition of tropical French-ness amid the sociopolitical and cultural struggles of a fin de siècle France riddled with social unrest and political divisions"--Publisher's website, January 16, 2018.

West Indies, French --- Antilles, French --- Antilles françaises --- French Antilles --- French West Indies --- Antilles, Lesser --- Politics and government. --- History. --- 1800-1999 --- Disasters --- Disasters. --- Social conditions. --- Politische Beteiligung --- Naturkatastrophe --- Sozialer Wandel

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Prävention. --- Naturkatastrophe. --- Naturgewalt. --- Küstenschutz. --- Frankreich. --- Hazard mitigation --- Compensation (Law) --- Natural disasters --- Accident law --- Restorative justice --- Torts --- Catastrophes --- Indemnisation --- Catastrophes naturelles --- Accidents --- Justice réparatrice --- Responsabilité civile --- Law and legislation --- Réduction --- Droit --- Justice réparatrice --- Responsabilité civile --- Réduction --- Coastal zone management --- Government liability --- Littoral --- État --- Aménagement --- Responsabilité