Environmental hazards : assessing risk and reducing disaster / Keith Smith.
Material type:
- 0415318033 (alk. paper)
- 0415318041 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 363.7 SMI/Env 22
- GB5014 .S6 2004
- 38.99
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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