Environmental hazards assessing risk and reducing disaster
Keith Smith.
- 4th ed.
- London New York Routledge 2004.
- xiv, 306 p. ill. (some col.), maps 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [272]-299) and index.
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.