Natural Disasters Under Changing Climate: Modeling Strategies, Predictions, and Management
Natural Disasters Under Changing Climate: Modeling Strategies, Predictions, and Management is an essential textbook within the natural disaster prediction domain. It functions as a comprehensive book on natural disasters, and focuses on floods, landslides, earthquakes, dust storms, land subsidence, wildfire, sea level rise, drought, snow avalanches, debris flow, desertification, sand dune migration, and heatwaves. In addition to taking a wide range of natural disasters into account, it covers novel approaches in the field of artificial intelligence and remote sensing in detail. It also provides an overview of the different concepts of natural disasters perception and how geo-environmental, topo-hydrological, and edaphic variables are connected with their occurrences. This textbook delves into applications of novel artificial intelligence approaches, including machine-learning and deep-learning algorithms and new remote sensing platforms and techniques. It presents the scientific frameworks for spatial prediction of a wide suite of natural disasters with a focus on specific triggers and processes. The initial chapters of the book shed light on the main principles and mechanisms of disasters prediction and the application of artificial intelligence algorithms in natural disasters domain. They discuss the applicability of the predictive models in the natural hazards domain and how the understanding of disaster management can happen with the help of disaster susceptibility maps. The book then pivots into landslide susceptibility modeling under climate change and details the use of DInSAR as a powerful tool for studying the effects of earthquakes in various regions. Following that, dust storm frequency and intensity, and how these are impacted by climatic factors, as well as water and land use management, is discussed at length. This textbook is a critical resource for upper-level undergraduate students in earth and environmental sciences, specifically those studying or researching physical geography, environmental sciences, geospatial and geohazard modeling, and integrated watershed management. It is also useful for professionals in the field of environmental science, natural disasters, climate change, and sustainability. This textbook contains study questions and case studies as additional resources for students and instructors.
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Natural Disasters Under Changing Climate: Modeling Strategies, Predictions, and Management
Natural Disasters Under Changing Climate: Modeling Strategies, Predictions, and Management is an essential textbook within the natural disaster prediction domain. It functions as a comprehensive book on natural disasters, and focuses on floods, landslides, earthquakes, dust storms, land subsidence, wildfire, sea level rise, drought, snow avalanches, debris flow, desertification, sand dune migration, and heatwaves. In addition to taking a wide range of natural disasters into account, it covers novel approaches in the field of artificial intelligence and remote sensing in detail. It also provides an overview of the different concepts of natural disasters perception and how geo-environmental, topo-hydrological, and edaphic variables are connected with their occurrences. This textbook delves into applications of novel artificial intelligence approaches, including machine-learning and deep-learning algorithms and new remote sensing platforms and techniques. It presents the scientific frameworks for spatial prediction of a wide suite of natural disasters with a focus on specific triggers and processes. The initial chapters of the book shed light on the main principles and mechanisms of disasters prediction and the application of artificial intelligence algorithms in natural disasters domain. They discuss the applicability of the predictive models in the natural hazards domain and how the understanding of disaster management can happen with the help of disaster susceptibility maps. The book then pivots into landslide susceptibility modeling under climate change and details the use of DInSAR as a powerful tool for studying the effects of earthquakes in various regions. Following that, dust storm frequency and intensity, and how these are impacted by climatic factors, as well as water and land use management, is discussed at length. This textbook is a critical resource for upper-level undergraduate students in earth and environmental sciences, specifically those studying or researching physical geography, environmental sciences, geospatial and geohazard modeling, and integrated watershed management. It is also useful for professionals in the field of environmental science, natural disasters, climate change, and sustainability. This textbook contains study questions and case studies as additional resources for students and instructors.
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Natural Disasters Under Changing Climate: Modeling Strategies, Predictions, and Management is an essential textbook within the natural disaster prediction domain. It functions as a comprehensive book on natural disasters, and focuses on floods, landslides, earthquakes, dust storms, land subsidence, wildfire, sea level rise, drought, snow avalanches, debris flow, desertification, sand dune migration, and heatwaves. In addition to taking a wide range of natural disasters into account, it covers novel approaches in the field of artificial intelligence and remote sensing in detail. It also provides an overview of the different concepts of natural disasters perception and how geo-environmental, topo-hydrological, and edaphic variables are connected with their occurrences. This textbook delves into applications of novel artificial intelligence approaches, including machine-learning and deep-learning algorithms and new remote sensing platforms and techniques. It presents the scientific frameworks for spatial prediction of a wide suite of natural disasters with a focus on specific triggers and processes. The initial chapters of the book shed light on the main principles and mechanisms of disasters prediction and the application of artificial intelligence algorithms in natural disasters domain. They discuss the applicability of the predictive models in the natural hazards domain and how the understanding of disaster management can happen with the help of disaster susceptibility maps. The book then pivots into landslide susceptibility modeling under climate change and details the use of DInSAR as a powerful tool for studying the effects of earthquakes in various regions. Following that, dust storm frequency and intensity, and how these are impacted by climatic factors, as well as water and land use management, is discussed at length. This textbook is a critical resource for upper-level undergraduate students in earth and environmental sciences, specifically those studying or researching physical geography, environmental sciences, geospatial and geohazard modeling, and integrated watershed management. It is also useful for professionals in the field of environmental science, natural disasters, climate change, and sustainability. This textbook contains study questions and case studies as additional resources for students and instructors.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780443338793
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Publication date: 09/01/2026
Pages: 400
Product dimensions: 7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dr. Omid Rahmati is a Geo-environmental Researcher and Assistant Professor at the AREEO institute, Iran. He has widespread research interests in risk, modeling, uncertainty, and decision-making in relation to natural hazards and natural resources management. He has published over 70 articles in international peer-reviewed journals and has been cited over 7000 times. He has been selected as the Highly Cited Researchers (the world’s top 1% scientists) in 2022 and 2023 based on the Web of Science (Clarivate) who has demonstrated broad and significant influence reflected in his publications over the last decade.

Zahra Kalantari has successfully led and carried out interdisciplinary research with focus on understanding of earth and human systems to develop science, technology and innovation solutions to planet’s most pressing environmental challenges associated with the combined effects of changes in climate, land-use and water-use in terrestrial environments.



Carla Sofia Ferreira is at Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, Portugal

Bahram Choubin is an Assistant Professor at the West Azarbaijan Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Education Center in Urmia, Iran. He has been working at this center since 2019. Before that, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Tehran from 2018 to 2019. He has published more than 50 articles in JCR-indexed journals and is a scientific reviewer for more than 80 ISI journals. According to Elsevier's World Scientists Rankings, he is among the top 2% of scientists in the world. Choubin's primary research interests encompass hydrometeorology, natural hazard prediction, forecasting in ungauged basins (PUB), advanced machine learning techniques, and cutting-edge radar/remodeling applications in hazard assessment. As a prolific co-author of numerous peer-reviewed research articles and book chapters within these fields, Choubin has been recognized with several prestigious awards for his scientific contributions (e.g., from Iran's National Elites Foundation).



Dr. Eng. Rares Halbac-Cotoara-Zamfir is Lecturer and PhD supervisor at Politehnica University of Timisoara, Faculty of Civil Engineering. He has a MSc in Environment Protection and a PhD in Civil Engineering (integrating also elements of environment and sustainable development). In 2016, Dr. Eng. Halbac-Cotoara-Zamfir Rares successfully defended his habilitation thesis “land reclamation and improvement works and sustainable land management in the context of climatic changes”. He spent fifteen years in academia as PhD candidate, Assistant Professor and Lecturer with teaching and transnational project research responsibilities in civil engineering (land reclamation and improvement, sustainable land management, water resources management), sustainable development, environment protection natural hazards, climate change adaptation. Dr. Eng. Rares Halbac-Cotoara-Zamfir was and is currently involved in EEA, Horizon, COST and EUKI projects.

Table of Contents

1. Natural Disasters Under Climate Change: Challenges and Issues of Modeling, Prediction and Management
2. Spatial Prediction of Flood Hazard Using Data-Mining Models
3. Landslide Susceptibility Modeling under climate change impact: The Role of Machine Learning for Prioritizing Landslide-Chapter
4. Analysis of Earthquake Effects Using DinSAR
5. Mitigation Strategies for Dust Storm with an Interdisciplinary Approach
6. Spatiotemporal Behavior of Landslides Reactivation Using Optic and Radar Satellite Images
7. Spatiotemporal Pattern of Desertification: The Impacts of Land Use and Climate Changes
8. Deep Learning-Based Flood Hazard Assessment
9. Radar-Based Remote Sensing for Land Subsidence Monitoring and Modeling
10. Wildfire Susceptibility Mapping Using Novel Optimized Hybrid Deep Learning Models
11. Vulnerability to Sea Level Rise in Coastal Coupled Social-Ecological Systems
12. Application of MODIS-based Reflectance Spectral Data for Drought Detection and Prediction
13. Snow Avalanche Prediction in Large-Scale Regions Using Deep-Learning and Metaheuristic Algorithms
14. Modeling of Debris Flow Susceptibility Using Artificial Intelligence Approach
15. Detecting Near-Real Time Flood Extent Using Radar-Based Satellite Images
16. Sand Dune Migration Disaster: Monitoring and Protections
17. Dust events and analysis of farmers' resilience measures
18. Heatwave: Mechanisms, Monitoring, and Predictions

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