Extreme Natural Events: Sustainable Solutions for Developing Countries

ISBN-13: 9789811925108 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 455 str.

A. S. Unnikrishnan; Fredolin Tangang; Raymond J. Durrheim

Opis

This book presents the challenges of developing countries to understand and manage the risks of extreme natural events. In the seventeen chapters presented, it brings together scientific communities from Ghana, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Sri Lanka, South Africa, and Venezuela to share their expertise in different aspects of managing extreme natural events, particularly those related to climate. It discusses how adaptation to these extreme natural events must be an integral part of national policy of the developing countries dealing with disaster mitigation and management.

Spis treści

Section I – Climate Extremes

Chapter 1: CORDEX Southeast Asia: Providing Regional Climate Change Information for

Enabling Adaptation - Fredolin Tangang, Chung Jing Xiang, Faye Cruz, Supari, Jerasorn

Santisirisomboon, Thanh Ngo-Duc, Liew Juneng, Ester Salimun, Gemma Narisma, Julie

Dado, Tan Phan-Van, Mohd Syazwan Faisal Mohd, Patama Singhruck, John L. Mc Gregor,

Edvin Aldrian, Dodo Gunawan and Ardhasena Spaheluwakan (Malaysia)

Chapter 2: Technical and Infrastructure Modality for Extreme Climate Early Warning in

Indonesia - Edvin Aldrian, Sheila Dewi Ayu Kusumaningtyas, Supari, Danang Eko

Nuryanto, Ardhasena Sopaheluwakan and Dwikorita Karnawati (Indonesia)

Chapter 3: Discussion of Extreme Weather Events in Egypt - Mounir W. Labib (Egypt)

Chapter 4: Impact Assessment and Mitigation Measures of Climatic Variation on Paddy

Production: Case Study in Ampara District, Sri Lanka - A. Narmilan, A.N.M. Asmath,

N. Puvanitha (Sri Lanka)

Section II – Extreme Rainfall Events and Thunderstorms

Chapter 5: Thermodynamic Changes in the Atmosphere Associated with Pre-Monsoon

Thunderstorms over Eastern and North-Eastern India - Bhishma Tyagi, Rajesh Kumar

Sahu, Manoj Hari and Naresh Krishna Vissa (India)

Chapter 6: Real-Time Detection of Tornado Induced Ionospheric Disturbances by Stand-Alone

GNSS Receiver - Batakrushna Senapati, Dibyashakti Panda, Bhaskar Kundu and Bhishma

Tyagi (India)

Chapter 7: Statistical Characteristics of Extreme Rainfall Events over the Indian Sub-Continent

- PC Anandh, Naresh Krishna Vissa and Bhishma Tyagi (India)

Chapter 8: Complexities of Extreme Rainfall in the Philippines - Lyndon Mark P. Olaguera, Faye

Abigail T. Cruz, Julie Mae B. Dado and Jose Ramon T. Villarin (Philippines)

Chapter 9: A Case Study of an Unexpected Extreme Rainfall Event on 1 September 2020 in Sri

Lanka - A.R.P. Warnasooriya, M.M.P. Mendis and Malth Fernando (Sri Lanka)

Section III – Extreme Sea Level Changes and Coastal Inundation

Chapter 10: Extreme Wind-Wave Characteristics in the North Indian Ocean in a Changing

Climate - Prasad K. Bhaskaran, Neelamani S, Khaled Al-Salem, Athira Krishnan, Jiya

Albert and Sreelakshmi S. (India)

Chapter 11: Extreme Sea Level Changes in the North Indian Ocean - A.S. Unnikrishnan and

Charls Antony (India)

Chapter 12: Mapping of Coastal Inundation due to Tropical Cyclones: A Numerical Study for

the Indian Coasts - A.D. Rao and Smita Pandey (India)

Section IV– Earthquakes

Chapter 13: Assessment of the Earthquake Risk Posed By Shale Gas Development in South

Africa - Raymond J. Durrheim, Vunganai Midzi, Moctar Doucoure and Musa S.D. Manzi

(South Africa)

Chapter 14: Living Safely with Earthquakes without making them Extreme Events in Asia - R.K.

Chadha (India)

Section V– Landslides

Chapter 15: Landslides and Slope Instability in Mussoorie and Nainital Townships

(Uttarakhand) in Present Climate-Change Scenario - Vikram Gupta, Kalachand Sain

and Ruchika Sharma Tandon (India)

Section VI – Integrated Disaster Risk Reduction

Chapter 16: Policy Issues and Mitigation Strategies of Natural Disasters Management in

Bangladesh - Munir Ahmed and A.K.M Saiful Islam (Bangladesh)

Chapter 17: Contributions to a Comprehensive Strategy Design for Disaster Risk Reduction

Related to Extreme Hydroclimatic Events in Latin America and the Caribbean -

Alejandro Linayo (Venezuela)

Chapter 18: Relocation of Vulnerable Households following Natural Disasters: Evidence of

Planned Relocation in Sri Lanka - Nishara Fernando and Naduni Jayasinghe (Sri Lanka)​

O autorze

Dr. A.S. Unnikrishnan obtained his Doctorate from Universite de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France in 1985. Subsequently, he joined CSIR – National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), Goa, India. He has worked in the Physical Oceanography Division in various capacities including as a Group Leader during 2009-2012 and superannuated as Chief Scientist (2015). He also worked as Consultant at NIO, Goa (2015-2017). His field of interests are: sea level variability (tides, storm surges and long-term changes) along the Indian coast and estuarine studies using observations and modelling. His work includes extreme events such as extreme sea level using analysis of data and modelling. He had a minute contribution to IPCC’s winning of Nobel Prize for Peace in 2007 jointly with Mr. Al Gore.

Dr. Fredolin Tangang is a Professor of Climatology in the Department of Earth Sciences and Environment, Faculty of Science and Technology at the National University of Malaysia, where he also currently serves as Head of Department and has been with the University for 35 years. Prof. Tangang obtained his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia, Canada in 1997 where he developed a model to forecast El Niño. In 2011 he was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Sciences, Malaysia. From 2008 – 2015 during the AR5 Cycle, Prof. Tangang served as the Vice-Chair of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group 1. In the IPCC AR6 Cycle, he served as a Review Editor of Chapter 10. Prof. Tangang is also a Scientific Team Member (SAT) of CORDEX, an international programme under the World Meteorological Organization. He leads and coordinates the CORDEX Southeast Asia. Prof. Tangang has completed more than 30 research projects and published more than 100 scientific papers in international journals.

Prof. Raymond Durrheim (Ph.D., Witwatersrand, 1990) holds the South African Research Chair in Exploration, Earthquake and Mining Seismology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He is co-director of the Africa Array Research and Capacity-building Programme, was co-leader of the Japanese-South African collaborative project “Observational studies in South African mines to mitigate seismic risks” (2010-2015), and is a Principal Investigator of the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP) project “Drilling into seismogenic zones of M2.0 – M5.5 earthquakes from deep South African gold mines” (DSeis, 2016-present). He is the author or co-author of more than 160 refereed articles published in journals, conference proceedings and books. He was President of the South African Geophysical Association (SAGA) in 1995/96. Prof. Durrheim was awarded SAGA’s highest honour, the Krahmann Memorial Medal, in 2015, and the National Science & Technology Forum – South32 Lifetime Award for 2020/21 ‘in recognition of an outstanding contribution to science engineering, technology and innovation’.​