Environmental hazards : assessing risk and reducing disaster / Keith Smith and David N. Petley.

By:

Smith, Keith, 1938-

Material type:

Computer filePublication details: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2008.Edition: 5th edDescription: p. cmISBN:

9780203884805 (ebk)
9780415428637 (hbk)
9780415428651 (pbk)

DDC classification:

363.34 222

LOC classification:

GB5014 .S6 2008

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Available online to registered users

Contents:

Pt. I. The Nature of Hazard -- 1. Hazard in the Environment -- 2. Dimensions of Disaster -- 3. Complexity in Hazard and Disaster -- 4. Risk Assessment and Management -- 5. Reducing the Impacts of Disaster -- Pt. II. The Experience and Reduction of Hazard -- 6. Tectonic Hazards: Earthquakes -- 7. Tectonic Hazards: Volcanoes -- 8. Mass Movement Hazards -- 9. Severe Storm Hazards -- 10. Biophysical Hazards -- 11. Hydrological Hazards: Floods -- 12. Hydrological Hazards: Droughts -- 13. Technological Hazards -- 14. Context Hazards -- 15. Postscript.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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