Weather extremes : mitigating the impact.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publication details: Camberwell South, Vic. : Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria, 2003.Description: 56 p. : ill. ; 30 cmDDC classification:- 551.6994 22
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Books | Australian Emergency Management Library | BOOK | 551.6994 GEO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 900176365 |
Being volume 31, number 1 (March 2003) of Interaction, Journal of the Geography Teachers' Association of Victoria
Title taken from cover.
The feature article is Climate extremes in Australia: the role of risk management by Dingle [sic] Smith. It concentrates on the extreme variability of rainfall in Australia, and the droughts and floods that accompany this variation. There is also an article: Hazard geography: extreme weather phenomena by Julia Freeman. This is a unit of work of about a term's length designed for use with year 9/10 students. The contents are: the nature of atmospheric hazards and their interrelationship, an analysis of the spatial distribution of hazards, and risk assessment and management strategies.
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