Progress of Geo-Disaster Mitigation Technology in Asia

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Wang, Fawu. (Editor), Miyajima, Masakatsu. (Editor), Li, Tonglu. (Editor), Shan, Wei. (Editor), Fathani, Teuku Faisal. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Environmental Science and Engineering, Environmental Engineering,
• Subjects: Geography.; Geology.; Earth Sciences.; Natural Hazards.; Environmental Science and Engineering.; Earth System Sciences.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29107-4

This book includes the recent 10-year achievement of geo-disaster mitigation by leading Asian scientists from Japan, China, Indonesia, Korea, Iran and Far East of Russia. Case studies on recent occurred geo-disasters in Asian region have been presented. The forming mechanics of hazards such as earth...

Table of Contents:

• Damage by the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami
• Geological prerequisites for landslide dams' disaster assessment and mitigation in Central Asia
• Social benefits of landslide prevention and mitigation in Hong Kong, China
• Advances of geo-disaster mitigation technologies in Taiwan
• The mechanisms for initiation and motion of Chinese loess landslides
• Geo-disaster and its mitigation in Nepal
• Hybrid socio-technical approach for landslide risk reduction in Indonesia
• Damage and recovery from the 1999 Chichi Earthquake in Taiwan
• Key factors influencing the mechanism of rapid and long runout landslides triggered by the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, China
• Strong ground motion prediction for scenario earthquakes
• Stability analysis of loess slopes based on reliability concepts
• Loess deposit and loess landslides on the Chinese loess plateau.