Tsunami
The Underrated Hazard
3rd Edition
Published on 2. July 2014
Book
Hardback
XXXI, 222 pages
978-3-319-06132-0 (ISBN)
Description
It is a comprehensive and well illustrated textbook on all aspects of tsunami. I don't think there is any other book on the topic published. As one bookseller said after the Indian Ocean tsunami event, "I would have just filled my front window with copies and they would have walked out the store." This statement was just as relevant after the Japanese tsunami of 2011 and will be as relevant when the next large tsunami event happens, sooner rather than later. The book can be used by a student or layperson to gain encyclopedic knowledge about tsunami.
Reviews / Votes
From the book reviews:
"Bryant (International Univ. of Malaya-Wales), an outstanding international expert, has updated his earlier editions . providing comprehensive coverage of tsunami science and history. . chapters cover tsunami dynamics, tsunami-modified coastal landscapes, major causes, and poignant case histories. . This work is valuable to a wide audience-students and professionals in environmental sciences and economics, coastal engineering, geology, geophysics, and oceanography; civic/emergency planners; and people living along coastlines. . Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries." (T. T. Grose, Choice, Vol. 52 (6), February, 2015)More details
Edition
3rd ed. 2014
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
8 farbige Abbildungen, 141 s/w Abbildungen
XXXI, 222 p. 149 illus., 8 illus. in color.
Dimensions
Height: 285 mm
Width: 215 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
887 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-319-06132-0 (9783319061320)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-06133-7
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
09/2016
3rd Edition
Springer
€106.99
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E-Book
06/2014
3rd Edition
Springer
€96.29
Available for download
Previous edition
Book
12/2007
2nd Edition
Springer
€181.89
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Person
Dr Edward Bryant is a renowned and respected tsunami researcher, writer and teacher in the areas of natural hazards and climatology. Tsunami: The Underrated Hazard was first published by Cambridge University Press in 2001. This is now out of print and CUP confirmed that all rights in the book have reverted to the author. The 2nd Edition incorporates the great Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 and the author focuses on geomorphology and the processes and events linked to the main causes of tsunami, namely, earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides and, in addition, comet and meteorite impacts.
Content
Part 1 Tsunami as a known hazard.- 1. Introduction.- 2. Tsunami dynamics.- Part 2 Tsunami-Formed Landscapes.- 3. Signatures of tsunami in the coastal landscape.- 4. Coastal Landscape Evolution.- Part 3 Causes of Tsunami.- 5. Earthquake-Generated Tsunami.- 6. Great Tsunamigenic Earthquakes.- 7. Great Landslides.- 8. Volcanic Eruptions.- 9. Comets and Asteroids.- Part 4 Modern Risk of Tsunami.- 10. Risk and Avoidance.- 11. Epilogue.- References.- Index.