South Carolina Atlas of Environmental Risks and Hazards
- ISBN-10
- 1570032920
- ISBN-13
- 9781570032929
- Category
- Nature
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998-03
- Publisher
- Univ of South Carolina Press
- Authors
- Jerry T. Mitchell, Susan L. Cutter, Michael S. Scott
Description
This resource is to help understand enviromental threats such as air, water and land pollution. Each section provides a description of an environmental hazard, including hazards of everyday life, as well as explanations and illustrations of historic and geographic patterns of hazards.
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