Environmental hazards assessing risk and reducing disaster
Title:
Environmental hazards assessing risk and reducing disaster
Author:
Smith, Keith, 1938-
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Edition:
4th ed.
Publication Information:
London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
Physical Description:
xiv, 306 p. : ill. (some col.), maps.
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.
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