This book offers a comprehensive description and analysis of natural hazard warnings, drawing on perspectives from the social sciences, physical sciences, and interdisciplinary fields such as disaster studies to articulate a distinction between traditional warnings and what might be called interdisciplinary warnings.
1. Forward.- 2. Introduction.- 3. Warning Systems: Past, Present, and State of the Art.- 4. Obstacles to Successful Warnings.- 5. Interdisciplinary Warning Research and Practice.- 6. Case Studies.- 7. Future Directions and Challenges.- 8. Conclusion.