TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith,Prof Keith
AU  - Smith,Keith
TI  - Environmental Hazards: Assessing Risk and Reducing Disaster
T2  - Physical Environment
SN  - 9780203595015
AV  - GB5014 \.S 
U1  - 363.7 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Disasters
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS Assessing risk and reducing disaster -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface to the fourth edition -- Preface to the first edition -- Acknowledgements -- Part I The Nature of Hazard -- 1 Hazard in the Environment -- 2 Dimensions of Disaster -- 3 Risk Assessment and Management -- 4 Reducing the Impacts of Diaster -- Part II The Experience and Reduction of Hazard -- 5 Tectonic Hazards: Earthquakes -- 6 Tectonic Hazards: Volcanoes -- 7 Mass Movement Hazards -- 8 Severe Storm Hazards -- 9 Biophysical Hazards -- 10 Hydrological Hazards: Floods -- 11 Hydrological Hazards: Droughts -- 12 Technological Hazards -- 13 Context Hazards -- 14 Postscript -- Appendix: Some useful web pages -- References -- Index
N2  - The fourth edition of Environmental Hazards continues to blend physical and social sciences to provide a thoroughly balanced, contemporary introduction to hazards analysis and mitigation strategies. It covers all the major rapid-onset events, whether natural, human or technological in origin which directly threaten humans and what they value. Environmental Hazards provides a lucid comprehensive introduction to both the theory and practice of hazards and their mitigation, drawing on interdisciplinary insights. It is essential reading for students of geography, environmental science, earth science and geology
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