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100	1		_aSmith, Keith, _d1938-
245	1	0	_aEnvironmental hazards : _bassessing risk and reducing disaster / _cKeith Smith.
250			_a6th ed.
260			_aAbingdon : _bRoutledge, _c2013.
300			_axxvi, 478 pages : _bill. (chiefly col.), maps ; _c26 cm.
500			_aPrevious ed.: 2009.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505			_aCONTENTS: 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. _g _r _t
520			_aThis 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.
650		0	_aEmergency management.
650		0	_aHazardous geographic environments.
650		0	_aNatural disasters _xSocial aspects.
650		0	_aNatural disasters.
650		0	_aPollution.
650		0	_aRisk assessment.
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