assessing risk and reducing disaster Smith, Keith 1938- creator text Abingdon Routledge 2013 6th ed. monographic xxvi, 478 pages : ill. (chiefly col.), maps ; 26 cm. 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. 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. Keith Smith. Previous ed.: 2009. Includes bibliographical references and index. Emergency management Hazardous geographic environments Natural disasters Social aspects Natural disasters Pollution Risk assessment 9780415681063 (pbk.) : 6709