Towards Mathematics, Computers and Environment: A Disasters Perspective

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With relevant, timely topics, this book gathers carefully selected, peer-reviewed scientific works and offers a glimpse of the state-of-the-art in disaster prevention research, with an emphasis on challenges in Latin America. Topics include studies on surface frost, an extreme meteorological event that occasionally affects parts of Argentina, Bolivia, Peru, and southern Brazil, with serious impacts on local economies; near-ground pollution concentration, which affects many industrial, overpopulated cities within Latin America; disaster risk reduction and management, which are represented by mathematical models designed to assess the potential impact of failures in complex networks; and the intricate dynamics of international armed conflicts, which can be modeled with the help of stochastic theory. The book offers a valuable resource for professors, researchers, and students from both mathematical and environmental sciences, civil defense coordinators, policymakers, and stakeholders. Front Matter ....Pages i-xix An Overview of the El Niño, La Niña, and the Southern Oscillation Phenomena: Theory, Observations, and Modeling Links (Léo Siqueira, Enver Ramírez, Rosio Camayo)....Pages 1-18 Observation, Theory, and Numerical Modeling: Atmospheric Teleconnections Leading to Generalized Frosts over Southeast South America (Gabriela V. Müller, Guillermo Berri, Marilia de Abreu Gregorio)....Pages 19-36 Balances in the Atmosphere and Ocean: Implications for Forecasting and Reliability (Enver Ramírez, Léo Siqueira, Rosio Camayo)....Pages 37-58 Pollutant Dispersion Modeling via Mathematical Homogenization and Integral Transform-Based Multilayer Methods (Camila P. da Costa, Leslie D. Pérez-Fernández, Julián Bravo-Castillero)....Pages 59-82 Data Mining Approaches to the Real-Time Monitoring and Early Warning of Convective Weather Using Lightning Data (Stephan Stephany, Cesar Strauss, Alan James Peixoto Calheiros, Glauston Roberto Teixeira de Lima, João Victor Cal Garcia, Alex Sandro Aguiar Pessoa)....Pages 83-101 Methodological Proposal for the Prediction of Hydrological Responses to Land-Uses and Land-Cover Changes in a Brazilian Watershed (Lidiane dos Santos Lima, Paulo Cesar Colonna Rosman, Julia Celia Mercedes Strauch, Nelson Ferreira Fernandes, Letícia de Carvalho Giannella)....Pages 103-124 Computational Modeling and Simulation of Surface Waterflood in Mountainous Urban Watersheds with the MOHID Platform: Case Study Nova Friburgo, Brazil (Wagner R. Telles, Diego N. Brandão, Jader Lugon Jr., Pedro P. G. W. Rodrigues, Antônio J. Silva Neto)....Pages 125-143 Applied Time Series—Natural Disasters Perspective of Use: Landslide and Flood (Alessandra C. Corsi, Filipe A. M. Falcetta, Marcela P. P. Guimarães, Eduardo S. de Macedo)....Pages 145-162 Bayesian Analysis of the Disaster Damage in Brazil (Camila Bertini Martins, Viviana Aguilar Muñoz, André Yoshizumi Gomes, Ricardo Manhães Savii, Carolina Locatelli Colla)....Pages 163-183 About Interfaces Between Machine Learning, Complex Networks, Survivability Analysis, and Disaster Risk Reduction (Leonardo Bacelar Lima Santos, Luciana R. Londe, Tiago José de Carvalho, Daniel S. Menasché, Didier A. Vega-Oliveros)....Pages 185-215 Digital Humanities and Big Microdata: New Approaches for Demographic Research (Pier Francesco De Maria, Leonardo Tomazeli Duarte, Álvaro de Oliveira D’Antona, Cristiano Torezzan)....Pages 217-231 Modeling Social and Geopolitical Disasters as Extreme Events: A Case Study Considering the Complex Dynamics of International Armed Conflicts (Reinaldo Roberto Rosa, Joshi Neelakshi, Gabriel Augusto L. L. Pinheiro, Paulo Henrique Barchi, Elcio Hideiti Shiguemori)....Pages 233-254 Back Matter ....Pages 255-258