Environmental hazards :
Smith, Keith, 1938-
Environmental hazards : assessing risk and reducing disaster / Keith Smith. - 6th ed. - Abingdon : Routledge, 2013. - xxvi, 478 pages : ill. (chiefly col.), maps ; 26 cm.
Previous ed.: 2009.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS: The Nature of Hazard -- Hazard in the Environment -- Dimensions of Disaster -- Complexity, Sustainability and Vulnerability -- Risk Assessment and Management -- Reducing the Impacts of Disaster Part Two: The Experience and Reduction of Hazard -- Tectonic Hazards -- Earthquakes and Tsunamis -- Tectonic Hazards - Volcanoes -- Landslide and Avalanche Hazards -- Severe Storm Hazards -- Weather Extremes, Disease Epidemics and Wildfires -- Hydrological Hazards - Floods -- Hydrological Hazards - Droughts -- Technological Hazards -- Environmental Hazards in a Changing World Bibliography Index.
This volume integrates key findings from the natural and the social sciences to provide an assessment of environmental risk and the policy responses required to achieve a safer world.
9780415681063 (pbk.) : 32.99
Emergency management.
Hazardous geographic environments.
Natural disasters--Social aspects.
Natural disasters.
Pollution.
Risk assessment.
Environmental hazards : assessing risk and reducing disaster / Keith Smith. - 6th ed. - Abingdon : Routledge, 2013. - xxvi, 478 pages : ill. (chiefly col.), maps ; 26 cm.
Previous ed.: 2009.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS: The Nature of Hazard -- Hazard in the Environment -- Dimensions of Disaster -- Complexity, Sustainability and Vulnerability -- Risk Assessment and Management -- Reducing the Impacts of Disaster Part Two: The Experience and Reduction of Hazard -- Tectonic Hazards -- Earthquakes and Tsunamis -- Tectonic Hazards - Volcanoes -- Landslide and Avalanche Hazards -- Severe Storm Hazards -- Weather Extremes, Disease Epidemics and Wildfires -- Hydrological Hazards - Floods -- Hydrological Hazards - Droughts -- Technological Hazards -- Environmental Hazards in a Changing World Bibliography Index.
This volume integrates key findings from the natural and the social sciences to provide an assessment of environmental risk and the policy responses required to achieve a safer world.
9780415681063 (pbk.) : 32.99
Emergency management.
Hazardous geographic environments.
Natural disasters--Social aspects.
Natural disasters.
Pollution.
Risk assessment.