Environmental Hazards

Assessing Risk and Reducing Disaster
2. Auflage 1996
ISBN: 978-0-415-12203-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 416 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Environmental Hazards covers all major rapid-onset events, whether natural, human or technological in origin, which directly threaten human life on a community scale.This substantially revised and expanded 2nd edition includes important new global case studies and new sections on risk management and epidemics, disaster trends and Third World vulnerability, remote sensing, mass movements and droughts. Drawing from the most recent research, this edition offers an important new contribution in the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction and an essential text for students.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, Prof Keith

Smith, Keith

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART ONE: The Nature of Hazard. 1. Hazard in the Environment, 2. Dimensions of Disaster, 3. Risk Assessment and Management, 4. Adjustment to Hazard - Accepting and Sharing the Loss, 5. Adjustment to hazard - Reducing the loss, PART TWO: The Experience and Reduction of Hazard, 6. Tectonic Hazards -Earthquakes, 7. Tectonic Hazards - Volcanoes, 8. Mass Movement Hazards, 9. Atmospheric Hazards - Severe storms, 10. Biophysical Hazards - Thermal Extremes, Epideics and Wildfires, 11. Hydrological Hazards -Floods, 12. Hydrological Hazards -Droughts, 13. Technological Hazards. 14, Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Keith Smith is Professor of Environmental Science and Head of the School of Natural Sciences at the University of Stirling. He has held previous posts at the universities of Liverpool, Durham and Strathclyde as well as at several overseas institutions. His other books include Water in Britain, Principles of Applied Climatology, and (with G.A. Tobin) Human Adjustment to the Flood Hazard