Environmental hazards : assessing risk and reducing disaster
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Environmental hazards : assessing risk and reducing disaster
（Routledge physical environment series）
Routledge, 1996
2nd ed
- : hard
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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: hard ISBN 9780415122030
Description
Environmental Hazards covers all major rapid-onset events, whether natural, human or technological in origin, which directly threaten human life on a community scale.
This substantially revised and expanded 2nd edition includes important new global case studies and new sections on risk management and epidemics, disaster trends and Third World vulnerability, remote sensing, mass movements and droughts. Drawing from the most recent research, this edition offers an important new contribution in the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction and an essential text for students.
Table of Contents
PART ONE: The Nature of Hazard. 1. Hazard in the Environment, 2. Dimensions of Disaster, 3. Risk Assessment and Management, 4. Adjustment to Hazard - Accepting and Sharing the Loss, 5. Adjustment to hazard - Reducing the loss, PART TWO: The Experience and Reduction of Hazard, 6. Tectonic Hazards -Earthquakes, 7. Tectonic Hazards - Volcanoes, 8. Mass Movement Hazards, 9. Atmospheric Hazards - Severe storms, 10. Biophysical Hazards - Thermal Extremes, Epideics and Wildfires, 11. Hydrological Hazards -Floods, 12. Hydrological Hazards -Droughts, 13. Technological Hazards. 14, Conclusion
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: pbk ISBN 9780415122047
Description
Extreme geophysical events and an increasing array of technological hazards continue to put people and life at risk. The 2nd edition of Environmental Hazards offers up-to-date coverage of all major rapid-onset events - seismic, mass movement, atmospheric, hydrological and technological hazards - which directly threaten human life on a community scale. Presenting a complete introduction to enviromental hazards, this 2nd Edition has been expanded and enhanced with important new case studies, illustrations, statistical data and new material on mass movements and Third World vulnerability. Taking account of the most recent conceptual advances and insights from both earth and social sciences, this book offers an important contribution in the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction.
Table of Contents
PART ONE: The Nature of Hazard. 1. Hazard in the Environment, 2. Dimensions of Disaster, 3. Risk Assessment and Management, 4. Adjustment to Hazard - Accepting and Sharing the Loss, 5. Adjustment to hazard - Reducing the loss, PART TWO: The Experience and Reduction of Hazard, 6. Tectonic Hazards -Earthquakes, 7. Tectonic Hazards - Volcanoes, 8. Mass Movement Hazards, 9. Atmospheric Hazards - Severe storms, 10. Biophysical Hazards - Thermal Extremes, Epideics and Wildfires, 11. Hydrological Hazards -Floods, 12. Hydrological Hazards -Droughts, 13. Technological Hazards.
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