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Earthquakes and Volcanic Activity on Islands: History and Contemporary Perspectives from the Azores

Earthquakes and Volcanic Activity on Islands: History and Contemporary Perspectives from the Azores

Duncan, Angus
Coutinho, Rui
Chester, David

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Chan

General SociologyGeographyGeology

ISBN10: 0367136783
ISBN13: 9780367136789
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 30 2021
Pages: 258
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This volume examines the impact of and responses to historic earthquakes and volcanic eruptions in the Azores. Study is placed in the contexts of: the history and geography of this fascinating archipelago; progress being made in predicting future events and policies of disaster risk reduction.

This is the only volume to consider the earthquake and volcanic histories of the Azores across the whole archipelago and is based, not only on contemporary published research, but also on the detailed study of archival source materials. The authors seek to show how extreme environmental events, as expressed through eruptions, earthquakes and related processes operating in the past may be considered using both complementary scientific and social scientific perspectives in order to reveal the ways in which Azorean society has been shaped by both an isolated location in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and the ever present threat of environmental uncertainty. Chapter 2, which analyses in depth the geology and tectonics of the islands is of more specialist interest, but technical terms are fully explained so as to widen the accessibility of this material.

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