Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Teide Volcano has many different meanings: For the Guanche aborigines, who endured several of its eruptions, it was Echeide (Hell). Early navigators had in Teide, a lifesaving widely visible landmark that was towering over the clouds. For the first explorers, Teide was a challenging and dangerous climb, since it was thought that Teide's peak was so high that from its summit the sun was too close and far too hot to survive. Teide was considered the highest mountain in the world at that time and measuring its height precisely was a great undertaking and at the time of global scientific significance. For von Buch, von Humboldt, Lyell and other great 18th and19th century naturalists, Teide helped to shape a new and now increasingly 'volcanic' picture, where the origin of volcanic rocks (from solidified magma) slowly casted aside Neptunism and removed some of the last barriers for the development of modern Geology and Volcanology as the sciences we know today. For the present day population of Tenerife, living on top of the world's third tallest volcanic structure on the planet, Teide has actually become "Padre Teide", a fatherly protector and an emblematic icon of Tenerife, not to say of the Canaries as a whole. The UNESCO acknowledged this iconic and complex volcano, as "of global importance in providing evidence of the geological processes that underpin the evolution of oceanic islands". Today, 'Teide National Park' boasts 4 Million annual visitors including many 'volcano spotters' and is a spectacular natural environment which most keep as an impression to treasure and to never forget. For us, the editors of this book, Teide is all of the above; a 'hell of a job', a navigation point on cloudy days, a challenge beyond imagination, a breakthrough in our understanding of oceanic volcanism that has shaped our way of thinking about volcanoes, and lastly, Teide provides us with a reference point from where to start exploring other oceanic volcanoes in the Canaries and beyond. Here we have compiled the different aspects and the current understanding of this natural wonder.

Geology -- Canary Islands -- Tenerife. --- Teide, Pico de (Canary Islands). --- Volcanism -- Canary Islands -- Tenerife. --- Geology --- Volcanism --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Dynamic & Structural Geology --- Geology - General --- Volcanism. --- Volcanoes. --- Volcanos --- Volcanicity --- Vulcanism --- Earth sciences. --- Geochemistry. --- Geology. --- Geophysics. --- Natural disasters. --- Geomorphology. --- Earth Sciences. --- Geophysics/Geodesy. --- Natural Hazards. --- Landforms --- Volcanology --- Geodynamics --- Physical geography. --- Geography --- Chemical composition of the earth --- Chemical geology --- Geological chemistry --- Geology, Chemical --- Chemistry --- Earth sciences --- Geognosy --- Geoscience --- Natural history --- Natural calamities --- Disasters --- Geomorphic geology --- Physiography --- Physical geography --- Geological physics --- Terrestrial physics --- Physics --- Teide, Pico de (Canary Islands) --- Canary Islands --- Teneriffe --- Peak of --- Pico de --- Peak of Tenerife (Canary Islands) --- Pico de Teide (Canary Islands) --- Pico de Tenerife (Canary Islands) --- Pico de Teyde (Canary Islands) --- Teide, Pico de (Tenerife, Canary Islands) --- Teide Peak (Canary Islands) --- Tenerife, Peak of (Canary Islands) --- Teyde, Pico de (Canary Islands)

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

In recent years, a considerable volume of technical literature has been published on flood hazard analysis, and more recently, on flood vulnerability and resilience. Nevertheless, there is still a shortage of scientific studies and practical experience of real flood risk assessment (both social and economic), including hazard, exposure and vulnerability analyses and their integration. As there are so few references available, applications of flood risk assessment to the design of preventive measures and early warning systems, landscape and urban planning, civil protection, insurance systems, and risk-based information and education, cannot reach their full potential development. This is because the research products available, such as hazard data and maps, do not serve to ensure the efficient prioritization of mitigation measures or communities at risk. Meanwhile, flooding is the natural disaster that causes the greatest loss on a global scale, and due to climate change, this situation is expected to continue. The research manuscripts involved in this book try to offer flood risk managers new tools, data and maps to improve risk mitigation, both preventive and corrective. A wide variety of topics have been covered, including: flood risk data sources; techniques and methodologies for flood risk analysis; flood risk mapping; or flood risk analysis calibrations.

Research & information: general --- flood risk assessments --- vulnerability of networks --- emergency management --- geographic information systems --- open source --- flood risk --- LOESS model --- risk map calibration --- 112 emergency service --- central Spain --- PRICAM project --- spatial autocorrelation --- Poisson regression --- eigenvector spatial filtering method --- flood risk evaluation --- Ebro River --- flood mapping --- flood risk areas --- RADAR SAR --- Sentinel-1 --- RGB composition --- calibrated thresholding --- pluvial floods --- flood risk assessment --- climate change --- damages --- vehicles --- properties --- pedestrians --- floods --- fatalities --- circumstances of loss of life --- historical analysis --- levee failures --- database --- flood defences --- levee breach --- cultural heritage --- meso-scale --- flood hazard --- flood vulnerability --- Castile and León --- Spain --- lahar --- Pico de Orizaba --- paleostage indicators --- tree-ring analysis --- RAMMS program --- flood torrential dynamics --- geomorphological threshold --- land-use changes --- ski resort --- hydrological response --- Pyrenees --- glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) --- debris flow --- Bhote Koshi --- landslides --- Gorkha earthquake --- hazard assessment --- vulnerability indicators --- vulnerability cartography --- AHP --- local analysis --- open public data sources --- economic damage --- building first floor --- magnitude–damage models --- Navaluenga --- flood forecasting --- snow cover control --- flood management --- Tagus Basin --- climate model projections --- Reinosa --- climate change prioritization --- flood risk analysis --- flood damage uncertainty