Advances in Natural Hazards and Hydrological Risks: Meeting the Challenge

Table of Contents

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   Book Overview
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   Chapter 1 A Century and Half of Hydrogeomorphological Disasters in Mainland Portugal
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   Chapter 2 Hazard Analysis of Hydrometeorological Concatenated Processes in the Colombian Andes
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   Chapter 3 Statistical and Physically-Based Rainfall Triggered Landslides Susceptibility Assessment in the Tagus River Left Margin Basins, Almada County (Portugal)
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   Chapter 4 Aquifer Contamination by Coastal Floods in the Plain of Costa Da Caparica, Almada (Portugal)
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   Chapter 5 Groundwater Monitoring in Regional Discharge Areas Selected as “Hydrosensitive” to Seismic Activity in Central Italy
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   Chapter 6 Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of a Water Supply Network: City of Aveiro Case Study
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   Chapter 7 Natural Hazards Coming from Trace Elements Natural Enrichment: The Bevera Valley Basin (Northern Italy) Case History
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   Chapter 8 Radon Gas and Groundwater: Study of Risks in Water Galleries in Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain)
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    Chapter 9 Hydrological Risks in Natural Hazards Focused on the Role of the Water: Studies on Landslides
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    Chapter 10 The Reliability of a Heuristic-Holistic Methodology for the Definition of Susceptibility to Destabilization—The Potential Sources of Uncertainty
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    Chapter 11 Preliminary Analysis of Slope Instability Processes Triggered in the Guilherme Creek Watershed (Nordeste Municipality, S. Miguel Island, Azores)
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    Chapter 12 The Use of Total Station for Monitoring Mass Movements: Application to Fajãzinha Landslide at Flores Island (Azores Archipelago)
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    Chapter 13 Subsidence Hazard in Limestone Cavities: The Case of “Grutas da Moeda” (Fátima, Central Portugal)
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    Chapter 14 Geotechnical Hazards in Rocky Slopes (Northern Portugal): Focused on Methodology
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    Chapter 15 The Use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in the Monitoring of Forest Fires
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    Chapter 16 Slopes Instability Phenomena and Mitigation Techniques After October 2017 Wildfires in Serra Da Estrela Region
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    Chapter 17 Impact of Sea-Level Rise in the Azores Islands. Prospective Analysis Based on Current Projections
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    Chapter 18 The Importance of Land Cover Planning on Climatic Events: Evaluation of Peatlands’ Buffer Impact on Terceira and Flores Islands (Azores, Portugal)
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    Chapter 19 Ponta Delgada, a Volcanic City. Main Natural Risks and Reasons that Dictate the Coexistence of Populations
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    Chapter 20 Build Back Better: Rebuild to Preserve
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    Chapter 21 Vulnerability to Mass Movements’ Hazards. Contribution of Sociology to Increasing Community Resilience
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    Chapter 22 Flooding Risk Assessment in the Middle Tiber River Valley with Remediation Proposal
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    Chapter 23 The 2017 Flash Flood of Livorno (Italy): Lessons Learnt from an Exceptional Hydrologic Event
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    Chapter 24 Evaluating and Mapping the Hazard and Risk of Vehicle Instability Within a Flood Prone Area
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    Chapter 25 Definition of Flood-Prone Areas: A Comparison between HEC-RAS and Iber Software Results
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    Chapter 26 Azores Assessment and Management of Flood Risks
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    Chapter 27 Incorporating Apparent Shear Stress in the Roughness to Improve the Discharge Prediction in Overbank Flows
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    Chapter 28 Dispersive Effects During Long Wave Run-up on a Plane Beach
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    Chapter 29 Analysis of Nonlinear Wave Parameters on Ofir Sandy Beach (NW Portugal)
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    Chapter 30 Morphodynamics of an Embayed Beach in Majorca Island
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    Chapter 31 Dike Vulnerability Due to Sea-Level Rise (Western Canada)
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    Chapter 32 Iber+ : A New Code to Analyze Dam-Break Floods
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    Chapter 33 Rivers’ Confluence Morphological Modeling Using SRH-2D
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    Chapter 34 Evaluation of the Hydraulic Design of Culverts Under a Climate Change Scenario: A Preliminary Analysis of Road Case Studies in Southern Portugal
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    Chapter 35 Geology and Volcanology of Pico Island (Azores, Portugal): A Field Guide