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Extreme Event and History: for a better consideration of natural hazards

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This chapter aims to remind us of the fundamental importance, for our modern but fragile societies, of the difficult study of historical data on natural hazards. Forgetting is a regular feature of our decisions, and the preservation of the memory of natural disasters depends heavily on our ability to quantify their effects. The author, a climate historian, recalls here some fundamental aspects of this discipline and its necessary connection to statistical approaches to risk analysis.
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hal-03504680 , version 1 (29-12-2021)

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Emmanuel Garnier. Extreme Event and History: for a better consideration of natural hazards. Statistical Extreme Value Theory with Applications to Natural Hazard Engineering, Springer, 2021, 978-3-030-74941-5. ⟨hal-03504680⟩
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