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Main Title Environmental hazards : assessing risk and reducing disaster /
Author Smith, Keith,
Publisher Routledge,
Year Published 2004
OCLC Number 53145347
ISBN 0415318033; 9780415318037; 0415318041; 9780415318044; 0415428637; 0415428653; 9780415428637; 9780415428651
Subjects Natural disasters ; Environmental risk assessment ; Natuurrampen ; Milieurampen ; Risicoanalyse ; Naturkatastrophe ; Naturkatastrophe--(DE-588)4041387-1 ; Catastrophes naturelles ; Environnement--Evaluation du risque
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Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0701/2003021969-d.html
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EJEM  GB5014.S6 2004 OCSPP Chemical Library/Washington,DC 10/28/2005
Edition 4th ed.
Collation xiv, 306 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-299) and index.
Contents Notes
I: The nature of hazard -- Hazard in the environment -- Dimensions of disaster -- Risk assessment and management -- Reducing the impacts of disaster -- II: The experience and reduction of hazard -- Tectonic hazards: earthquakes -- Tectonic hazards: volcanoes -- Mass movement hazards -- Severe storm hazards -- Biophysical hazards -- Hydrological hazards: floods -- Hydrological hazards: droughts -- Technological hazards -- Context hazards -- Postscript.