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Incluye referencias bibliográficas al final de cada capítulo.

1. Risk assessment and uncertainty in natural hazards -- 2. Quantifying hazard losses -- 3. Model and data limitations: the sources and implications of epistemic uncertainty -- 4. Quantifying scientific uncertainty from expert judgement elicitation -- 5. Risk and uncertainty in hydrometeorological hazards -- 6. Hydrometeorological hazards under future climate change -- 7. Flood risk and uncertainty -- 8. Scientific uncertainties: a perspective from probabilistic seismic hazard assessments for low-seismicity areas -- 9. Landslide and avalanche hazards -- 10. Tsunami hazard and risk -- 11. Risk and uncertainty assessment of volcanic hazards -- 12. Risk assessment and management of wildfires -- 13. Catastrophic impacts of natural hazards on technological facilities and infrastructure -- 14. Statistical aspects of risk characterisation in ecotoxicology -- 15. Social science perspective on natural hazards risk and uncertainty -- 16. Natural hazards and risk: the human perspective.