Environmental hazards assessing risk and reducing disaster
Keith Smith.
- 6th ed.
- London, NY Routledge 2013.
- 478 pages (some col.), maps 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references 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.