Overview
- Highlights the challenges in developing countries to understand and manage the risks of extreme natural events
- Discusses the nexus between climate change and extreme natural events
- Includes case studies from different continents to emphasize the delicate situations
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Extreme Rainfall Events and Thunderstorms
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Extreme Waves, Sea Level Changes and Coastal Inundation
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Earthquakes and Landslides
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About this book
This book presents the challenges of developing countries to understand and manage the risks of extreme natural events. In the seventeen chapters presented, it brings together scientific communities from Ghana, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Sri Lanka, South Africa, and Venezuela to share their expertise in different aspects of managing extreme natural events, particularly those related to climate. It discusses how adaptation to these extreme natural events must be an integral part of national policy of the developing countries dealing with disaster mitigation and management.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Fredolin Tangang is a Professor of Climatology in the Department of Earth Sciences and Environment, Faculty of Science and Technology at the National University of Malaysia, where he also currently serves as Head of Department and has been with the University for 35 years. Prof. Tangang obtained his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia, Canada in 1997 where he developed a model to forecast El Niño. In 2011 he was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences, Malaysia. From 2008 – 2015 during the AR5 Cycle, Prof. Tangang served as the Vice-Chair of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group 1. In the IPCC AR6 Cycle, he served as a Review Editor of Chapter 10. Prof. Tangang is also a Scientific Team Member (SAT) of CORDEX, an international programme under the World Meteorological Organization. He leads and coordinates the CORDEX Southeast Asia. Prof. Tangang has completed more than 30 research projects and published more than 100 scientific papers in international journals.
Prof. Raymond Durrheim (Ph.D., Witwatersrand, 1990) holds the South African Research Chair in Exploration, Earthquake and Mining Seismology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He is co-director of the Africa Array Research and Capacity-building Programme, was co-leader of the Japanese-South African collaborative project “Observational studies in South African mines to mitigate seismic risks” (2010-2015), and is a Principal Investigator of the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP) project “Drilling into seismogenic zones of M2.0 – M5.5 earthquakes from deep South African gold mines” (DSeis, 2016-present). He is the author or co-author of more than 160 refereed articles published in journals, conference proceedings and books. He was President of the South African Geophysical Association (SAGA) in 1995/96. Prof. Durrheim was awarded SAGA’s highest honour, the Krahmann Memorial Medal, in 2015, and the National Science & Technology Forum – South32 Lifetime Award for 2020/21 ‘in recognition of an outstanding contribution to science engineering, technology and innovation’.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Extreme Natural Events
Book Subtitle: Sustainable Solutions for Developing Countries
Editors: A.S. Unnikrishnan, Fredolin Tangang, Raymond J. Durrheim
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2511-5
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Centre for Science & Technol. of the, Non-aligned and Other Devel. Countries 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-2510-8Published: 13 October 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-2513-9Published: 14 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-2511-5Published: 12 October 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 455
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations, 174 illustrations in colour
Topics: Natural Hazards, Ecology, Sustainable Development, Risk Management