Complexity in Tsunamis, Volcanoes, and their Hazards

Overview

This volume of the Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science, Second Edition, is an authoritative single source for understanding and applying the basic tenets of complexity and systems theory, as well as the tools and measures for analyzing complex systems, to the prediction, monitoring, and evaluation of earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes. Early warning, damage, and the immediate response of human populations to these extreme environmental events are also covered from the point of view of complexity and nonlinear systems. In authoritative, state-of-the-art articles, world experts in each field apply such complexity tools and concepts as fractals, cellular automata, solitons, game theory, network theory, and statistical physics to an understanding of these complex geophysical phenomena.