Keith Smith

Environmental Hazards (eBook, PDF)

Assessing Risk and Reducing Disaster

• Format: PDF

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134088249
• Artikelnr.: 39943781

Autorenporträt

Keith Smith is Emeritus Professor of Environmental Science and former Dean of Natural Sciences at the University of Stirling. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

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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