Environmental hazards : assessing risk and reducing disaster /
The much expanded sixth edition of Environmental Hazards provides a fully up-to-date overview of all the extreme events that threaten people and what they value in the 21st century. It integrates cutting-edge material from the physical and social sciences to illustrate how natural and human systems...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2013.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9781136647154 1136647155 1283920190 9781283920193 9780203805305 0203805305 9781136647147 1136647147 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- pt. I. The nature of hazard
- 1. Hazard in the environment
- Hazard, risk and disaster
- Current views : the complexity paradigm
- 2. Dimensions of disaster
- 3. Complexity, sustainability and vulnerability
- Complexity science
- Complexity and disasters
- An example : the Bam earthquake
- Sustainability and disasters
- Vulnerability and resilience
- Drivers of vulnerability and disaster
- 4. Risk assessment and management
- Role of information technology
- 5. Reducing the impacts of disaster
- Scoping the task
- Protection : hazard resistance
- Mitigation : disaster aid
- Mitigation : insurance
- Adaptation : preparedness
- Adaptation : predictions, forecasts and warnings
- Adaptation : land use planning.
- pt. II. The experience and reduction of hazard
- 6. Tectonic hazards : earthquakes and tsunamis
- Earthquake behavior
- Protection
- Mitigation
- Adaptation
- 7. Tectonic hazards : volcanoes
- Nature of volcanoes
- Protection
- Mitigation
- Adaptation
- 8. Mass movement hazards
- Landslide and avalanche hazards
- Snow avalanches
- Protection
- Mitigation
- Adaptation
- 9. Sever storm hazards
- Atmospheric hazards
- Nature of tropical cyclones
- Severe summer storms
- Severe winter storms
- Protection
- Mitigation
- Adaptation
- 10. Weather extremes, disease epidemics and wildfires
- Extreme temperature hazards
- Nature of disease epidemics
- Infectious diseases and climate
- Disease hazard reduction
- Nature of wildfires
- Wildfire hazard deduction
- 11. Hydrological hazards : floods
- Flood-prone environments
- Nature of floods
- Protection
- Mitigation
- Adaptation
- 12. Hydrological hazards : droughts
- Types of drought
- Causes of drought hazards
- Protection
- Mitigation
- Adaptation
- 13. Technological hazards
- Scale and nature of the hazard
- Outline of theory
- Technological hazards in practice
- Perception : the transport and nuclear industries
- Protection
- Mitigation
- Adaptation
- 14. Environmental hazards in a changing world
- Globalization of hazard
- Environmental change
- Air pollution and climate change
- Geophysical paths to disaster
- Climate change and environmental hazards.