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Book Review: From monsoons to microbes: understanding the ocean’s role in human health

Forty-three contributors, most of them from Europe and with the largest contingent from Italy, have been brought together to produce 24 chapters that deal with miscellaneous aspects of floods and landslides. The book is divided into four parts: an overview of the hazards; tools and methodology; management and socioeconomic aspects: and case studies. It is associated with the aims of a European Commission course held in Orvieto in 1996 that sought to bring the attention of young scientists to the importance of integrated risk assessment. Many of the scientists who have contributed to the book are of considerable distinction. Among the tools and methods that are discussed in Part 2 are dendrogeomorphology, the use of weather radar for rainfall and flow forecasting, numerical modelling techniques for predicting ground instability, cartographic techniques, meteorological modelling and realtime flood forecasting systems. The case studies described in Part 4 include landslides in the Dolomites, mass movements in Austria, landslides in the Piedmonte region of north Italy and the Varenna Valley near Genoa, and bedload mobilization in the Belgian Ardennes. The weakest part is that on management and socioeconomic aspects, with the management of landslides being given sparse attention. This means the integration of risk assessment is not quite as complete as one might have liked. There is also some range in the depth of treatment provided by individual chapters, two of which are only just over four pages long and one of which (on real-time flood forecasting systems by R.J. Moore) is over 40 pages long. It is, therefore, a volume of variable quality, but within it there are some valuable chapters and some interesting material. It provides a clear indication of the quality of European research on floods and landslides.