Environmental Hazards: Assessing Risk and Reducing Disaster

Environmental Hazards: Assessing Risk and Reducing Disaster
ISBN-10
1134368879
ISBN-13
9781134368877
Series
Environmental Hazards
Category
Science
Pages
324
Language
English
Published
2003-09-02
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Keith Smith

Description

The fourth edition of Environmental Hazards continues to blend physical and social sciences to provide a thoroughly balanced, contemporary introduction to hazards analysis and mitigation strategies. It covers all the major rapid-onset events, whether natural, human or technological in origin which directly threaten humans and what they value. Environmental Hazards provides a lucid comprehensive introduction to both the theory and practice of hazards and their mitigation, drawing on interdisciplinary insights. It is essential reading for students of geography, environmental science, earth science and geology.

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