Environmental hazards : assessing risk and reducing disaster / Keith Smith.
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- 0415318033 (alk. paper)
- 0415318041 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 363.7 SMI/Env 22
- GB5014 .S6 2004
- 38.99
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363.7 SIN/Env Environment in historical perspective : | 363.7 SIN/Sus Sustainable Development and Environment | 363.7 SIN/Env Environment in historical perspective : | 363.7 SMI/Env Environmental hazards : | 363.7 SMI/Glo Global Economy : Environmental Change and Social Flexibility | 363.7 SMI/Jac Jaccuse : Environment and Smidals Principles : Power and Responsibility Action and Re-Action | 363.7 SOL/Pol Politics of global climate change |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [272]-299) and index.
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.
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