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Environmental Hazards Prof. Keith Smith

Environmental Hazards By Prof Keith Smith (University of Stirling, UK)

Environmental Hazards by Prof. Keith Smith


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Summary

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.

Environmental Hazards Summary

Environmental Hazards: Assessing Risk and Reducing Disaster by Prof. Keith Smith

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.

Environmental Hazards Reviews

"An excellent guide to the field of natural hazards: comprehensive, thorough, and well-organized."
-David Alexander, University of Massachusetts
"The author's master of this complicated subject is reflected in the way the book is clearly written and well-structured...an important accomplishment considering that the subject continues to cry out for debate and action."
-Environmental Politics
"One area that is particularly appreciated by both myself and students is the overview of what a hazard is...the manner in which each hazard is covered, in terms of causes followed by a series of options for mitigation, in both developed and developing countries, is very useful."
-C. Holt, University College Northampton
"In this third edition of "Environmental Hazards, Keith Smith has fashioned yet futher improvements to what was already a highly readable, well-informed, broad ranging, and accessible text. Essential reading for anyone interested in environmental hazards."
-David K.C. Jones, London School of Economics
"This completely revised edition blends physical and social science to provide a balanced, contemporary introduction to major natural events, technological accidents, and aspects of global environmental change that threaten humans and what they value."
-"Natural Hazards Observer, January 2005

About Prof. Keith Smith

Keith Smith is Emeritus Professor of Environmental Sciences at the University of Stirling.

Table of Contents

Part 1: The Nature of Hazard 1. Hazard in the Environment 2. Dimensions of Disaster 3. Risk Assessment and Management 4. Reducing the Impacts of Disaster Part 2. The Experience and Reduction of Hazard 5. Tectonic Hazards: Earthquakes 6. Tectonic Hazards: Volcanoes 7. Mass Movement Hazards 8. Severe Storm Hazards 9. Biophysical Hazards 10. Hydrological Hazards: Floods 11. Hydrological Hazards: Droughts 12. Technological Hazards 13. Context Hazards

Additional information

GOR003464614
9780415318044
0415318041
Environmental Hazards: Assessing Risk and Reducing Disaster by Prof. Keith Smith
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2004-05-20
320
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