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What are the real risks posed by a volcanic eruption near a city - what is fact and what is myth? How have volcanic eruptions affected cities in the past, and how can we learn from these events? Why do communities continue to develop in such locations, despite the obvious threat? In this fascinating book, Grant Heiken explores global examples of cities at risk from volcanoes, from Italy, the US, Mexico, Ecuador, The Philippines, Japan and New Zealand, providing historical and contemporary eruption case studies to illustrate volcanic hazards, and cities' efforts to respond to them, both good and poor. He shows that truly successful volcanic hazard mitigation cannot be accomplished without collaboration between experts in geology and natural hazards, public health, medicine, city and infrastructure planning, and civil protection. This is a topical and engaging read for anyone interested in the history and future activity of these dangerous neighbors.… (meer)
Dangerous Neighbors is short book that uses case studies of various cities' situations to discuss the dangers people face living near volcanoes and how they have (not) learned to live alongside these geological time-bombs. Featuring volcanoes on six continents and from ancient Santorini to the modern day, Heiken manages to tell a lot about volcanic eruptions in less than two hundred pages. His text is very readable but suffers from a lack of notes. This may make it more accessible to the lay-reader but I would have found it interesting to view some of his sources. Instead, there is a short list of further reading at the book's end. Highly recommended for anyone interested in volcanoes and human interactions with volcanoes. ( )
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It was a total disaster: tens of millions of yards of lava flowed down the volcano's lower slopes and into the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Where scientists are already monitoring the volcanic processes, if civil authorities have initiated a well-thought-out education program, and if communities have put in place the most appropriate mitigation programs, residents have a chance to survive their neighbor's dangerous behavior.
What are the real risks posed by a volcanic eruption near a city - what is fact and what is myth? How have volcanic eruptions affected cities in the past, and how can we learn from these events? Why do communities continue to develop in such locations, despite the obvious threat? In this fascinating book, Grant Heiken explores global examples of cities at risk from volcanoes, from Italy, the US, Mexico, Ecuador, The Philippines, Japan and New Zealand, providing historical and contemporary eruption case studies to illustrate volcanic hazards, and cities' efforts to respond to them, both good and poor. He shows that truly successful volcanic hazard mitigation cannot be accomplished without collaboration between experts in geology and natural hazards, public health, medicine, city and infrastructure planning, and civil protection. This is a topical and engaging read for anyone interested in the history and future activity of these dangerous neighbors.
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