01641aam a2200265 4500 6709 9780415681063 (pbk.) : 32.99 9780203805305 (ebook) 9780415681059 (hardback) 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. Emergency management. Hazardous geographic environments. Natural disasters Social aspects. Natural disasters. Pollution. Risk assessment. 5654 5654 0 0 ddc 0 0 MAIN RTCLIB RTCLIB MAIN 2018-11-27 10490 0 363.7 SMI 30010577 2018-11-27 00:00:00 2018-11-27 MAIN