TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith,Keith
TI  - Environmental hazards: assessing risk and reducing disaster 
SN  - 9780415681063 (pbk.) :
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Abingdon
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Emergency management
KW  - Hazardous geographic environments
KW  - Natural disasters
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Pollution
KW  - Risk assessment
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -