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RECORD NUMBER: 558 OF 1789Main Title | Environmental hazards : assessing risk and reducing disaster / | |||||||||||
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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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Edition | 4th ed. | |||||||||||
Collation | xiv, 306 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm | |||||||||||
Notes | Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-299) and index. |
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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. |