Smith, Keith,  1938- <br/><br/>
Environmental hazards :  assessing risk and reducing disaster / 
Keith Smith. 
 - 6th ed. 
 - Abingdon :  Routledge,  2013. 
 - xxvi, 478 pages :  ill. (chiefly col.), maps ;  26 cm. 
<br/><br/> Previous ed.: 2009. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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.       
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780415681063 (pbk.) :  32.99 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Emergency management.<br/>Hazardous geographic environments.<br/>Natural disasters--Social aspects.<br/>Natural disasters.<br/>Pollution.<br/>Risk assessment.