On Tsunami Risk Assessment for the West Coast of Thailand

The catastrophic Indian Ocean tsunami of 26 December 2004 raised a number of questions for scientists and politicians on how to deal with the tsunami risk in coastal regions. This paper discusses the challenges in tsunami risk evaluation and presents the results of a tsunami risk mitigation study for the west coast of Thailand. It is argued that a scenario-based approach is particularly well suited for evaluation of the risk posed by tsunamis. The approach consists of considering scenarios of plausible extreme, tsunami-generating events, computing the tsunami inundation levels caused by these events, estimating the possible range of casualties for the computed inundation levels, and estimating the upper and lower bounds on the annual probability of occurrence of the scenarios. Other challenges related to perceived risk vs. real risk, acceptable/tolerable risk levels, and the use of the results in the decision making process are also put into perspectives

Preface: Damage of natural hazards: assessment and mitigation

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METHODOLOGICAL CHALLENGES OF MULTI-RISK AND MULTIHAZARD APPROACHES

Multi-hazards and risks are getting more and more important all over the world. Hereby, many different institutions and scientific disciplines are involved. A variety of multi-hazard and risk approaches are available. Following a brief review of the key terms in that field of disaster risk reduction, the main multi-hazard risk approach is presented. Hereby, the importance of interactions in terms of compound and cascading events is explored. The demand to move from classical risk management to disaster-based risk management is explored. Finally, challenging issues such as extreme events, emerging risks, communication in social media and artificial intelligence are put into perspective of multi-hazard risks

PRODUCT CHARACTERISTICS AFFECTING CONSUMERS' FRESH BEEF CUT PURCHASING DECISIONS IN THE UNITED STATES, JAPAN, AND AUSTRALIA

The effects of product and economic characteristics on consumers who purchase six cuts of fresh beef (blocks/parts, steak, thinly sliced, diced, chopped, and ground) in urban areas of the United States, Japan, and Australia will be examined in this paper. Certain product characteristics (such as product freshness and display case cleanliness) were important to consumers of beef in all three countries while other product characteristics (such as price considerations for ground beef consumers) were important for consumers of different beef cuts in all three countries. Some product characteristics varied in importance across consumers from different countries and consumers of different beef cuts.Consumer/Household Economics,

Chapter Conceptual Frameworks of Vulnerability Assessments for Natural Disasters Reduction

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Modeling of dangerous phenomena and innovative techniques for hazard evaluation and risk mitigation

Society is frequently exposed to and threatened by dangerous phenomena in many parts of the world. Different types of such phenomena require specific actions for proper risk management, from the stages of hazard identification to those of mitigation (including monitoring and early-warning) and/or reduction. The understanding of both predisposing factors and triggering mechanisms of a given danger and the prediction of its evolution from the source to the overall affected zone are relevant issues that must be addressed to properly evaluate a given hazard

Klímaadaptációs és kockázatértékelési kézikönyv a Duna makrorégióra

In this paper we find the maximal order of an automorphism of a trigonal Riemann surface of genus g, g5. We find that this order is smaller for generic than for cyclic trigonal Riemann surfaces, showing that generic trigonal surfaces have “less symmetry” than cyclic trigonal surfaces. Finally we prove that the maximal order is attained for infinitely many genera in both the cyclic and the generic case.Original Publication:Antonio F. Costa and Milagros Izquierdo, Maximal order of automorphisms of trigonal Riemann surfaces, 2010, Journal of Algebra, (323), 1, 27-31.http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jalgebra.2009.09.041Copyright: Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdamhttp://www.elsevier.com