Environmental hazards : assessing risk and reducing disaster /
Keith Smith.
- 4th ed.
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
- xiv, 306 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [272]-299) and index.
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.