Environmental hazards : assessing risk and reducing disaster / Keith Smith.

By: Smith, Keith, 1938-Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2004. Edition: 4th edDescription: xiv, 306 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cmISBN: 0415318033 (alk. paper); 0415318041 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Natural disasters | Disasters | Environmental risk assessmentDDC classification: 363.7 LOC classification: GB5014 | .S6 2004Online resources: Table of contents only | Publisher description

Contents:

I: The nature of hazard -- Hazard in the environment -- Dimensions of disaster -- Risk assessment and management -- Reducing the impacts of disaster -- II: The experience and reduction of hazard -- Tectonic hazards: earthquakes -- Tectonic hazards: volcanoes -- Mass movement hazards -- Severe storm hazards -- Biophysical hazards -- Hydrological hazards: floods -- Hydrological hazards: droughts -- Technological hazards -- Context hazards -- Postscript.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Books	Bangladesh Public Administration Training Centre Library General Reading Room	363.34 SME 2004 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	Newaz		94286

Includes bibliographical references (p. [272]-299) and index.

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