Environmental hazards : assessing risk and reducing disaster / Keith Smith.

By:

Smith, Keith, 1938-

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TextPublication details: Abingdon : Routledge, 2013.Edition: 6th edDescription: xxvi, 478 pages : ill. (chiefly col.), maps ; 26 cmISBN:

9780415681063 (pbk.) :

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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Cover image	Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Materials specified	Vol info	URL	Copy number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode	Item holds	Item hold queue priority	Course reserves
	Main	RTC Library Main opac		Main TEST		363.7 SMI					Available			30010577

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Previous ed.: 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and 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.