Environmental hazards : assessing risk and reducing disaster
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Environmental hazards : assessing risk and reducing disaster
（Routledge physical environment series）
Routledge, 2001
3rd ed
- : hbk
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. [355]-380
Includes indexes
Description and Table of Contents
- Volume
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: hbk ISBN 9780415224635
Description
This substantially revised 3rd Edition of Environmental Hazards, argues that knowledge about hazards and hazard mitigation, must be better applied to reduce death and destruction, particularly in developing countries. All the major rapid onset events which directly threaten humans and what they value are covered:
* tectonic hazards - earthquakes and volcanos
* mass movement hazards
* severe storm hazards
* biophysical hazards - temperature extremes, epidemics and wildfires
* hydrological hazards
* technological hazards.
The revised 3rd Edition includes new material on disaster debates and looks forward to future problems in the 21st century. This important book provides a balanced and up-to-date approach to environmental hazards and is ideally suited to act as a course text.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 The nature of hazard: hazard in the environment
- dimensions of disaster
- risk assessment and disaster management
- adjustment to hazard - accepting and sharing the loss
- adjustment to hazard - reducing the loss. Part 2 The experience and reduction of hazard: tectonic hazards - earthquakes
- tectonics hazards - volcanoes
- mass movement hazards
- severe storm hazards
- biophysical hazards - temperature extremes, epidemics and wildfires
- hydrological hazards - floods
- hydrological hazards - droughts
- technological hazards.
- Volume
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: pbk ISBN 9780415224642
Description
This substantially revised 3rd Edition of Environmental Hazards, argues that knowledge about hazards and hazard mitigation, must be better applied to reduce death and destruction, particularly in developing countries. All the major rapid onset events which directly threaten humans and what they value are covered:
* tectonic hazards - earthquakes and volcanos
* mass movement hazards
* severe storm hazards
* biophysical hazards - temperature extremes, epidemics and wildfires
* hydrological hazards
* technological hazards.
The revised 3rd Edition includes new material on disaster debates and looks forward to future problems in the 21st century. This important book provides a balanced and up-to-date approach to environmental hazards and is ideally suited to act as a course text.
Table of Contents
List of plates List of figures List of tables Preface to the third edition Preface to the first edition Acknowledgements Part I: The nature of hazard 1. Hazard in the environment 2. Dimensions of disaster 3. Risk assessment and disaster management 4. Adjestment to hazard: accepting and sharing the loss 5. Adjustment to hazard: reducing the loss Part II: The experience and reduction of hazard 6. Tectonic hazards: earthquakes 7. Tectonic hazards: volcanoes 8: mass movement hazards 9. Severe storm hazards 10. Biophysical hazards: temperature extremes, epidemics and wildires 11. Hydrological hazards: floods 12. Hydrological hazards: droughts 13. Techonological hazards 14. Conclusion Appendix References Subject index Geographical index
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