NH51C:
Persistent and Recurring Natural Hazards: Disaster Risk Reduction and Disaster Risk Management I

Session ID#: 2480

Friday, 19 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
3004 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Saskia M van Manen, Open University, Milton Keynes, MK7, United Kingdom and Tamar Elias, USGS, Baltimore, MD, United States
Primary Convener:  Saskia M van Manen, The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
Co-conveners:  Bruce F Houghton, Univ Hawaii Manoa, SOEST, Honolulu, United States and Graham Leonard, GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
OSPA Liaison:  Tamar Elias, USGS, Baltimore, MD, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • S - Seismology
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
  • V - Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology
Index Terms:

4306 Multihazards [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4335 Disaster management [NATURAL HAZARDS]
4339 Disaster mitigation [NATURAL HAZARDS]
Virtual Option?: Yes

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

NH51C-01
Flash Flooding - Ways That Science and Adaptation Reduce Losses (Invited) (4305)
Eve Gruntfest, Social Science Woven into Meteorology, Colorado Springs, CO, United States
NH51C-02
Aspects of Decision-Making for Risk Reduction during the Prolonged Earthquake Sequence in Canterbury, New Zealand (Invited) (7031)
Anne M Wein1, Sally Potter2, Julia Becker2, Jamie Lynne Ratliff3 and Emma Hudson-Doyle4, (1)U.S. Geological Survey, Western Geographic Science Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (2)GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand, (3)U. S. Geological Survey, Western Geographic Science Center, Menlo Parlk, CA, United States, (4)Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
NH51C-03
The Enormous Challenge faced by China to Reduce Earthquake Losses (29884)
Yali Wang1,2, Walter D Mooney3 and Bo Wang1, (1)CENC China Earthquake Networks Center, Beijing, China, (2)USGS, Menlo Park, CA, United States, (3)USGS California Water Science Center Menlo Park, Menlo Park, CA, United States
NH51C-04
Excess Rainfall Product for the Caribbean Region - Developed by The CCRIF and Swiss Re (28178)
Megan E. Linkin, Swiss Re, Armonk, NY, United States
NH51C-05
Recurrent Mudflows at Popocatepetl Volcano: Impact on the Population over several Thousand Years and possible Precursors. (26056)
Ana Lillian Martin1, Amiel Nieto2, Jorge Portocarrero2, Maria del Carmen Jaimes-Viera2 and Rita Fonseca2, (1)Instituto de Geofísica, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico, (2)Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
NH51C-06
Never Trust Anyone Over 30: Mitigation Strategies for Adapting to Three Decades of Persistent Degassing at Kīlauea Volcano, Hawai‘i (28885)
Tamar Elias1, A Jeff Sutton1, Elizabeth Tam2, Steven Businger3, Keith A Horton4, Diane Ley5 and Lani Petrie6, (1)USGS, Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, Hawaii National Park, HI, United States, (2)University of Hawaii at Manoa, John A. Burns School of Medicine, Honolulu, HI, United States, (3)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Atmospheric Sciences, Honolulu, United States, (4)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, (5)USDA, Farm Service Agency Hawaii State & Pacific Basin, Honolulu, HI, United States, (6)Kapapala Ranch, Pahala, HI, United States
NH51C-07
From Cyclone Tracks to the Costs of European Winter Storms: A Probabilistic Loss Assessment Model (11253)
Kirsten Orwig1, Dominik Renggli2, Thierry Corti2, Stefan Reese3, Marc Wueest2, Elisabeth Viktor2 and Peter Zimmerli2, (1)Swiss Reinsurance America Corporation, Armonk, NY, United States, (2)Swiss Reinsurance Company Ltd, Zurich, Switzerland, (3)Swiss Re Europe S.A., Munich, Germany
NH51C-08
A Century of Australian Natural Disasters and How to Reduce the Toll from Future Events (3196)
John McAneney, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia and Risk Frontiers, Macquarie University, Australia
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