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Environmental hazards : assessing risk and reducing disaster

Author: Keith Smith
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
Edition/Format:   Book : English : 4th edView all editions and formats
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Presents an introduction to various natural, social and technological events that combine to cause death and destruction across the globe. This book defines basic concepts of hazard, risk,  Read more...

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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Keith Smith
ISBN: 0415318033 9780415318037 0415318041 9780415318044 0415428637 0415428653 9780415428637 9780415428651
OCLC Number: 53145347
Description: xiv, 306 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm.
Contents: I: The nature of hazard --
Hazard in the environment --
Dimensions of disaster --
Risk assessment and management --
Reducing the impacts of disaster --
II: The experience and reduction of hazard --
Tectonic hazards: earthquakes --
Tectonic hazards: volcanoes --
Mass movement hazards --
Severe storm hazards --
Biophysical hazards --
Hydrological hazards: floods --
Hydrological hazards: droughts --
Technological hazards --
Context hazards --
Postscript.
Responsibility: Keith Smith.
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