Natural Disasters and Sustainable Development

1 The Erosion of Coasts and the Atlas of the Italian Beaches.- 2 Upwelling of the Sea over the Past 11.5 cal kyr b.p..- 3 Meteorological Factors Influencing Slope Stability.- 4 Use of Radar Rainfall Estimates for Flood Simulation in Mountainous Basins.- 5 FLOODSS: A Flood Operational Decision Support System.- 6 A Brief Overview of Hydrological Modelling.- 7 Slope Instabilities and Restauration in the Historical Town of Orvieto.- 8 Heavy Rainfall Hazards.- 9 Snow Avalanches.- 10 Land Use Planning in Hazard Mitigation: Intervening in Social and Systemic Vulnerabilities - An Application to Seismic Risk Prevention.- 11 Landslide Susceptibility Mapping: A Methodological Approach.- 12 Application of an Integrated Method for Landslide Hazard Assessment in the Area of Corvara in Badia (Dolomites, Italy).- 13 Tsunami Hazard in Southern Italy.- 14 Integrated Investigations on Landslides - The Example of the Super Sauze Earthflow.- 15 Disaster, Communication and Public Information.- 16 Natural Disasters and Sustainable Development: From Theory to Practice in Italy?.- 17 A Risk Analysis and Sustainability Approach to Natural Disaster Assessment and Mitigation Philosophy in the World.- 18 Activities of UNESCO for Natural Disaster Reduction.- 19 Reducing the Effect of Natural Hazards on Urban Areas.- 20 The Exposure of Anthropogenic Systems to Natural Hazards.- 21 Small-Scale Flooding and Muddy Floods as a Geomorphologic Hazard in Central Belgium: Some Financial Consequences.- 22 GIS and Natural Hazards.