INTRODUCTION
Risk management of natural perils in Munich Re: From Managua
1972 to GEM (Smolka) ............................................ 5
1 EARTHQUAKES AND TSUNAMIS
1.1 Earthquake hazards in intraplate regions (Friedrich) ... 11
1.2 Seismogenic surface faulting in the area of Germany's
strongest historical earthquake, Lower Rhine
Embayment, NW Germany (Kübler et al.) ................. 13
1.3 Andersonian and Coulomb stresses in central Costa
Rica and its fault slip tendency potential: New
insights into their associated seismic hazard
(López) ................................................ 17
1.4 Responsabilidad social de los geocientistas en el
manejo de riesgos: Enseñanzas derivadas de la
experiencia chilena con el megaterremoto del 27 de
febrero 2010 (Cisternas) ............................... 19
1.5 Riesgos de tsunamis en los bordes costeros (zonas de
subducción activa) de Chile: Parámetros geológicos
que inciden en el desarrollo del fenómeno,
caracteristicas у posibilidades predictivas (Frutos) ... 25
1.6 Tsunami deposits past and present, the determination
of recurrence intervals, and the estimation of long
term tsunami hazards (Bahlburg & Spiske) ............... 31
2 LANDSLIDES
2.1 Causes of landslides and their mitigation (Krauter) .... 35
2.2 Relaciones dinámicas del macrodeslizamiento
"Guarumales", Ecuador (Vasconez) ....................... 45
2.3 Geological risks in Brazil: The mountainous region of
Rio de Janeiro (Baggio & Horn) ......................... 55
2.4 Prediction of rainfall-generated soil erosion
processes with artificial neural networks and GIS
using advangeo® (Knobloch et al.) ...................... 63
3 VOLCANIC ERUPTION AND LAHARS
3.1 Eruptions of Nevado del Huila volcano during
2007/2008, generated lahars and volcanic crisis
management (Pulgarin et al.) ........................... 69
4 REGIONAL EXAMPLES
4.1 Evaluation of risk exposure to natural hazards in
Central America (Balzer & Kuhn) ........................ 81
4.2 Riesgos geológicos en México, ejemplo Monterrey Nuevo
Leon (de León Gómez et al.) ............................ 85
4.3 The Osa - Golfo Dulce seismic monitoring and risk
reduction, southern Costa Rica (Morales-Simfors &
Rojas) ................................................. 89
5 CLIMATIC CHANGE - REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES
5.1 Using the Late Paleozoic/Early Mesozoic icehouse/
greenhouse transition to understand the actual
climate change (Jasper & Uhl) .......................... 95
5.2 Managing regional climatic change - in Saxony,
Germany (Matschullat) .................................. 97
5.3 Desertification processes in the eastern central highlands
of Brazil: Caatinga - Cerrado near the São Francisco
Valley, Minas Gerais, and the relationship with the
deterioration of life quality (Horn & Baggio) ........ 105
6 EXTREME WEATHER CONDITIONS, DUST AND AEROSOL, COASTAL
PROTECTION
6.1 Drought and torrential rains, hail, dust and aerosols
storms, tornados and flooding, hot spells and
deepfreeze conditions: What does reality says in
a moderate climate zone? (Matschullat & Hänsel) ....... 111
6.2 Riesgos por eventos hidro-meteorológicos extremos,
polvo у aerosoles: Un estudiode casoen Cuba oriental
(Pierra Conde et al.) ................................. 113
6.3 Manejo integrado costero en regiones mineras
(Cervantes et al.) .................................... 121
7 WATER CONTAMINATION
7.1 Water contamination (Merkel) .......................... 125
7.2 Karstic areas of the Sao Francisco Valley: Its
importance of future water support (Horn & Baggio) .... 127
8 TERMINOLOGY, PLANNING, MITIGATION AND PUBLIC OUTREACH
8.1 Spatial decision support systems for geopotentials
in the periphery of urban areas (Hoppe et al.) ........ 131
8.2 From risk assessment to risk reduction
(Stempniewski) ........................................ 135
8.3 The "Multinational Andean Project: Geosciences for
Andean Communities" experience - an international
gcoscientific project focusing on science and
knowledge transfer (Hermanns et al.) .................. 137
8.4 Multi-criteria evaluation to reach sustainable
land-use in urban environments including
hydrogeological parameters, Linares example (Dávila-
Pórcel & de León Gómez) ............................... 145
8.5 Induced river capture and anthropogenic erosion: The
Iruya River gorge in the Subandean Ranges, NW
Argentina (Rubiolo) ................................... 157
8.6 Percepcion social del riesgo de desastres (Almaguer
Riverón & Pierra Conde) ............................... 161
9 FIELD TRIP (06.-07.04.2011)
9.1 Porphyrite quarry Weinheim (Porphyrwerkc Weinheim-
Schriesheim AG) (Krauter) ............................. 167
9.2 Waterworks Biebesheim and groundwater enrichment in
the northern Upper Rhine Graben (Hoppe & Schüth) ...... 173
9.3 Wissberg: Landslides in Rheinhessen (Krauter &
Steingötter) .......................................... 177
9.4 The Eastern Eifel Volcanic Field: Activity and risk
(Breitkreuz) .......................................... 180
9.5 Paleoseismicity in the Bay of Cologne (Friedrich) ..... 185
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