Risk Science and Sustainability

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. The Globalisation of Risk in the XXIst Century

   • Jean-Patrick Connerade

   Pages 1-7

3. Risk and Sustainability in Water Resources Management

   • Uri Shamir

   Pages 9-14

4. Aids to Decision-Making in Risk Management

   • J.-P. Massué

   Pages 15-19

5. Science and Risk: Scientific Authority at Risk

   • Geneviève Schméder

   Pages 21-27

6. Basic Science for Prediction and Reduction of Geological Disasters

   • Vladimir I. Keilis-Borok

   Pages 29-38

7. Environmental Risk and Sustainability

   • Tom Beer

   Pages 39-61

8. Science for Risk Reduction and Sustainable Development: The Role of Law

   • John Paterson

   Pages 63-76

9. Sustainable Development and Risk Evaluation: Challenges and Possible New Methodologies

   • Alexander Makarenko

   Pages 77-90

10. On Predictability of Homicide Surges in Megacities

    • Vladimir I. Keilis-Borok, David J. Gascon, Alexander A. Soloviev, Michael D. Intriligator, R. Pichardo, Fedor E. Winberg

    Pages 91-110

11. Earthquakes and Megacities

    • Friedemann Wenzel, F. Bendimerad

    Pages 111-125

12. Earth Sciences Contribution to the Sustainable Development of Ground Transportation Systems: Relevant Case Studies in Central Europe

    • Giuliano F. Panza, Mihaela Kouteva

    Pages 127-148

13. Modelling of Stress and Seismicity in the South-Eastern Carpathians

    • Alik T. Ismail-Zadeh

    Pages 149-162

14. Earthquake Loss Estimation for India Based on Macroeconomic Indicators

    • Paula K. Dunbar, Roger G. Bilham, Melinda J. Laituri

    Pages 163-180

15. Monitors and Methods for Investigation of Submarine Landslides, Seawater Intrusion and Contaminated Groundwater Discharge as Coastal Hazards

    • Leopold I. Lobkovsky, Evgeny A. Kontar, Igor A. Garagash, Yuri R. Ozorovich

    Pages 181-197

16. Risk of Collective Youth Violence in French Suburbs

    • Lucienne Bui Trong

    Pages 199-221

17. Lessons from Macrophagic Myofasciitis: Towards Definition of a Vaccine Adjuvant-Related Syndrome

    • Romain K. Gherardi

    Pages 223-224

18. Flood Risk Management in the Upper Tisza Basin in Hungary

    • Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer, Anna Vári, Zoltan Ferencz

    Pages 225-226

19. Volcanoes and Cities

    • Grant Heiken

    Pages 227-227

20. Geo-Risk Management Practices in the Asia Pacific Region

    • Amithirigala W. Jayawardena

    Pages 229-229

1 AUK ISMAIL-ZADEH ,2, TOM BEER3 1 International Institute of Earthquake Prediction Theory and Mathematical Geophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Warshavskoye shosse 79-2, Moscow 113556, Russia; e-mail: aismail@mitp.ru 2 Geophysikalisches Institut, Universittit Karlsruhe, Hertzstr. 16, Karlsruhe 76187, Germany; e-mail: Alik.Ismail-Zadeh@gpi.uni-karlsruhe.de 3 CSIRO Environmental Risk Network, CSIRO Atmospheric Research, Aspendale, Vic. 3195 Australia; e-mail: Tom.Beer@csiro.au The world faces major threats to the sustainability of our planet. These threats are accompanied by the immediate dangers of natural and man-made disasters. Our vulnerability to them is greatly magnified with each passing year undermining our ability to maintain a sustainable and productive world into the 21st Century and beyond. Both history and common sense teach us that science has a tremendous potential to find ways to cope with these threats. 1 The EUROSCIENCE working group "Science and Urgent Problems of Society" 2 and the IUGG Commission on Geophysical Risk and Sustainability were initiators of the EUROSCIENCE - IUGG Advanced Research Workshop "Science for Reduction of Risk and Sustainable Development of Society" sponsored by the NATO Science Program. The Workshop was held on 15-16 June 2002 in Budapest, Hungary. More than 40 participants from 17 countries took part in the Workshop. Talks and discussions addressed mainly the question of how science can help in reduction of risk and sustainable development of society.

• development
• groundwater
• management
• risk management
• safety
• sustainability
• sustainable development
• transport
• quality control, reliability, safety and risk
• hydrogeology

• CSIRO Environmental Risk Network, Aspendale, Australia

  Tom Beer

• International Institute of Earthquake Prediction Theory and Mathematical Geophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

  Alik Ismail-Zadeh

• Geophysikalisches Institut, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany

  Alik Ismail-Zadeh

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