This volume investigates the interdisciplinary and cross-cutting challenges in the risk
analysis of natural hazards. It brings together leading minds in engineering science
philosophy law and the social sciences. Parts I and II of this volume explore risk assessment
first by providing an overview of the interdisciplinary interactions involved in the assessment
of natural hazards and then by exploring the particular impacts of climate change on natural
hazard assessment. Part III discusses the theoretical frameworks for the evaluation of natural
hazards. Finally Parts IV and V address the risk management of natural hazards providing
first an overview of the interdisciplinary interactions underlying natural hazard management
and then exploring decision frameworks that can help decision makers integrate and respond to
the complex relationships among natural events the built environment and human behavior.
