Natural Disasters as Interactive Components of Global Ecodynamics

• Main Authors: Kondratyev, Kirill Ya (Author), Varotsos, Costas A. (Author), Krapivin, Vladimir F. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Series: Springer Praxis Books
• Subjects: Environment.; Natural disasters.; Climate change.; Geoecology.; Environmental geology.; Air pollution.; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution.; Natural Hazards.; Environmental Monitoring/Analysis.; Environment, general.; Climate Change.; Geoecology/Natural Processes.

This book opens a new approach to the study of global environmental changes having unfavourable character for mankind and other living systems. The main advantage of the book consists in the accumulation of knowledge from different sciences to parametrize the global ecodynamic process. Natural catas...

Table of Contents:

• Statistics of natural disasters
• Natural disasters and the survivability of ecological systems
• Biocomplexity as a predictor of natural disasters
• Natural disasters and humankind
• The monitoring of natural disasters
• Prediction of natural disasters
• The natural catastrophe in the Aral Sea region
• Natural disasters as components of global ecodynamics
• Interactivity of climate and natural disasters.