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Tsunami Events and Lessons Learned: Environmental and Societal Significance Softcover Repri Edition
Contributor(s): Kontar, Y. a. (Editor), Santiago-Fandiño, V. (Editor), Takahashi, T. (Editor)
ISBN: 9402400486     ISBN-13: 9789402400489
Publisher: Springer
OUR PRICE:   $104.49  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: August 2016
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BISAC Categories:
- Nature | Natural Disasters
- Science | Environmental Science (see Also Chemistry - Environmental)
- Science | Life Sciences - Marine Biology
Dewey: 551
Series: Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research
Physical Information: 467 pages
 
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This book is a collective effort by world experts, bringing together assorted contributions presented during the Ocean Science Session OS-017, of the AOGS-AGU Joint Assembly held in Singapore in 2012 (the Asia Tsunami and Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami events). The chapters cover assessment, evaluation, forecast and lessons learned as well as environmental and societal impacts of the latest tsunamis that occurred in the Indian Ocean in 2004 and the Pacific Ocean in Japan 2011.


The book is aimed at experts, scientists and decision makers seeking recent updated information, knowledge and experiences to better understand, quantify, forecast and protect coastal water resources, ecosystems, communities and human settlements which are often affected by tsunamis.