Environmental Hazards: Assessing Risk and Reducing Disaster

by Keith Smith, Carina J. Fearnley, Ilan Kelman

The seventh edition of Environmental Hazards provides a much expanded and fully up-to-date overview of all the extreme environmental events that threaten people and what they value in the 21st century globally. It integrates cutting-edge materials to provide an interdisciplinary approach to environmental hazards and their management, illustrating how natural and human systems interact to place communities of all sizes, and at all stages of economic development, at risk. Part 1 defines basic concepts of hazard, risk, vulnerability and disaster and explores the evolution of hazards theory. Part 2 employs a consistent chapter structure to demonstrate how individual hazards occur, their impacts and how the risks can be assessed and managed. This extensively revised edition This carefully structured and balanced textbook captures the complexity and dynamism of environmental hazards and is essential reading for students across many disciplines including geography, environmental science, environmental studies and natural resources.

Genres: Geography, Reference

632 pages, Paperback

First published December 23, 1991

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[Ali · Rating 4 out of 5]

Why, despite disaster death trends on the decline, are disaster damages increasing? Why is a sample 8.0 magnitude earthquake in Chile less devastating than the same 8.0 earthquake in Haiti? Why are people still developing in disaster prone areas with financial incentives to do so?

Short answer: capitalism
Long answer: read the book to find out

[Erika · Rating 3 out of 5]

Intressant, men väldigt Amerikacentrerad som mycket kurslitteratur är tyvärr.