Environmental Hazards covers all major rapid-onset events, whether natural, human or technological in origin, which directly threaten human life on a community scale.This substantially revised and expanded 2nd edition includes important new global case studies and new sections on risk management and epidemics, disaster trends and Third World vulnerability, remote sensing, mass movements and droughts. Drawing from the most recent research, this edition offers an important new contribution in the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction and an essential text for students.

Environmental Hazards: Assessing Risk and Reducing Disaster

Politics & Social Sciences

Smith, Keith

Smith, Prof. Keith

Social Sciences

Routledge

Environmental Hazards: Assessing Risk and Reducing Disaster (Routledge Physical Environment Series)

This substantially revised 3rd Edition of Environmental Hazards, argues that knowledge about hazards and hazard mitigation, must be better applied to reduce death and destruction, particularly in developing countries. All the major rapid onset events which directly threaten humans and what they value are covered: * tectonic hazards - earthquakes and volcanos * mass movement hazards * severe storm hazards * biophysical hazards - temperature extremes, epidemics and wildfires * hydrological hazards * technological hazards. The revised 3rd Edition includes new material on disaster debates and looks forward to future problems in the 21st century. This important book provides a balanced and up-to-date approach to environmental hazards and is ideally suited to act as a course text.

Science & Math

Astronomy & Space Science

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.

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.

Oxford to Bletchley: Including Verney Junction to Banbury

Mitchell, Vic

History

Middleton Press

Dorset and Somerset Narrow Gauge

Reference

Aylesbury to Rugby: Including Brill and Verney Junction (Midland Main Line)

Worcester to Birmingham: Via Kidderminster (Western Main Line)

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

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