Keith Smith

Environmental Hazards

Assessing Risk and Reducing Disaster

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is a well-written and generously illustrated overview of all the natural and technological events that threaten humans and what they value. It draws on the latest research across the physical and human sciences and guides students and researchers from problems, theories and policies to explore practical, real-world situations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• 6 ed
• Seitenzahl: 478
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 1176g
• ISBN-13: 9780415681063
• ISBN-10: 0415681065
• Artikelnr.: 33258065

Inhaltsangabe

Part One: The Nature of Hazard 1. Hazard in the Environment 2. Dimensions
of Disaster 3. Complexity, Sustainability and Vulnerability 4. Risk
Assessment and Management 5. Reducing the Impacts of Disaster Part Two: The
Experience and Reduction of Hazard 6. Tectonic Hazards - Earthquakes and
Tsunamis 7. Tectonic Hazards - Volcanoes 8. Landslide and Avalanche Hazards
9. Severe Storm Hazards 10. Weather Extremes, Disease Epidemics and
Wildfires 11. Hydrological Hazards - Floods 12. Hydrological Hazards -
Droughts 13. Technological Hazards 14. Environmental Hazards in a Changing
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