Contributors ix Preface xiii Section I: Introduction 1. Concepts and Methodologies of Environmental Hazards and Disasters 3 Nicolas R. Dalezios, George P. Petropoulos, and Ioannis N. Faraslis 2. Indigenous Knowledge for Disaster Solutions in the Hilly State of Mizoram, Northeast India 23 Kewat Sanjay Kumar, Awadhesh Kumar, Vinod Prasad Khanduri, and Sudhir Kumar Singh 3. Urban Risk and Resilience to Climate Change and Natural Hazards: A Perspective from Million?Plus Cities on the Indian Subcontinent 33 Amit Kumar, Diksha, A. C.
Pandey, and M. L. Khan 4. The Contribution of Earth Observation in Disaster Prediction, Management, and Mitigation: A Holistic View 47 Varsha Pandey, Prashant K. Srivastava, and George P. Petropoulos Section II: Atmospheric Hazards and Disasters 5. Tropical Cyclones Over the North Indian Ocean in Changing Climate 65 R. Bhatla, Raveena Raj, R.
K. Mall, and Shivani 6. Simulation of Intensity and Track of Tropical Cyclones Over the Arabian Sea Using the Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) Modeling System with Different Initial Conditions (ICs) 77 Sushil Kumar, Ashish Routray, Prabhjot Singh Chawla, and Shilpi Kalra 7. Development of a Soft Computing Model from the Reanalyzed Atmospheric Data to Detect Severe Weather Conditions 85 Devajyoti Dutta, Ashish Routray, and Prashant K. Srivastava 8. Lightning, the Global Electric Circuit, and Climate 93 N. Jeni Victor, Sagarika Chandra, and Devendraa Siingh 9. An Exploration of the Panther Mountain Crater Impact Using Spatial Data and GIS Spatial Correlation Analysis Techniques 111 Sawyer Reid Stippa, Konstantinos P.
Ferentinos, and George P. Petropoulos Section III: Land Hazards and Disasters 10. Satellite Radar Interferometry Processing and Elevation Change Analysis for Geoenvironmental Hazard Assessment 127 Sergey Stankevich, Iryna Piestova, Anna Kozlova, Olga Titarenko, and Sudhir Kumar Singh 11. Assessing the Use of Sentinel?2 in Burnt Area Cartography: Findings from a Case Study in Spain 141 Craig Amos, Konstantinos P. Ferentinos, George P. Petropoulos, and Prashant K. Srivastava 12. Assimilating SEVIRI Satellite Observation into the Name?III Dispersion Model to Improve Volcanic Ash Forecast 151 Prajakta Patil, I.
M. Watson, Shona Mackie, Prashant K. Srivastava, Tanvir Islam, and Sourabh Sakhare 13. Geoinformation Technology for Drought Assessment 171 Arnab Kundu, D. M. Denis, N. R. Patel, R.
K. Mall, and Dipanwita Dutta 14. Introduction to Landslides 181 H. K. Pandey 15. Probabilistic Landslide Hazard Assessment using Statistical Information Value (SIV) and GIS Techniques: A Case Study of Himachal Pradesh, India 197 Ankit Sharma, Ujjwal Sur, Prafull Singh, Praveen Kumar Rai, and Prashant K. Srivastava 16. One-Dimensional Hydrodynamic Modeling of the River Tapi: The 2006 Flood, Surat, India 209 Dhruvesh P.
Patel, Prashant K. Srivastava, Sudhir Kumar Singh, Cristina Prieto, and Dawei Han Section IV: Ocean Hazards and Disasters 17. Tropical Cyclone-Induced Storm Surges and Wind Waves in the Bay of Bengal 239 Prasad K. Bhaskaran, A. D. Rao, and Tad Murty 18. Space?Based Measurement of Rainfall Over India and Nearby Oceans Using Remote Sensing Application 295 Anoop Kumar Mishra and Kishan Singh Rawat 19. Modeling Tsunami Attenuation and Impacts on Coastal Communities 309 S.
Piché, I. Nistor, and T. Murty Index 325.