Geomorphological hazards and disaster prevention

Human activities have had a huge impact on the environment and landscape, through industrialisation and land-use change, leading to climate change, deforestation, desertification, land degradation, and air and water pollution. These impacts are strongly linked to the occurrence of geomorphological hazards, such as floods, landslides, snow avalanches, soil erosion, and others. Geomorphological work includes not only the understanding but the mapping and modelling of Earth's surface processes, many of which directly affect human societies. In addition, geomorphologists are becoming increasingly involved with the dimensions of societal problem solving, through vulnerability analysis, hazard and risk assessment and management. The work of geomorphologists is therefore of prime importance for disaster prevention. An international team of geomorphologists have contributed their expertise to this volume, making this a scientifically rigorous work for a wide audience of geomorphologists and other Earth scientists, including those involved in environmental science, hazard and risk assessment, management and policy.

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A town built on an earthflow, the atomic mushroom cloud over Bikini Atoll, weathering of a Nabatean tomb, 100-meter-wide sinkholes, and houses buried in migrating sand: these are but a few of the dramatic illustrations found in this intriguing book. Twenty-three chapters cover such diverse topics as the use of lichen analysis to determine earthquake recurrence, indirect hazards of volcanoes, and the effect of environmental change on hazards. Chapter contributors also discuss landslides, floods, avalanches, coasts, weathering, sinkholes, soil erosion, desertification, and international issues. As with any edited volume, the utility and quality of chapters vary, but overall the book contains much valuable information. Production quality is excellent, with many grayscale drawings and photos. There is a good index, and the layout is very readable. This book would be excellent for use in an upper-level/graduate course on geologic hazards as the concise chapters lend themselves to such (two chapters per week, for example). But the book also has merit as a reference or learning tool. Summing Up; Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals. I. D. Sasowsky University of Akron

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