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Environmental hazards: assessing risk and reducing disaster

By:

SMITH Keith

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London: Routledge, 1996Edition: 2nd edDescription: 389pISBN:

0415122031 (hbk.):

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Summary: Handbook on planning for and coping with disasters. Describes the difference between hazard and risk, how to scale a disaster, identify risk assessment and management, and mitigate effects through loss reduction. There are specific chapters on earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides and avalanches, storms, temperature extremes, epidemics, wildfires, floods, droughts, and technologically derived hazards.

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Handbook on planning for and coping with disasters. Describes the difference between hazard and risk, how to scale a disaster, identify risk assessment and management, and mitigate effects through loss reduction. There are specific chapters on earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides and avalanches, storms, temperature extremes, epidemics, wildfires, floods, droughts, and technologically derived hazards.

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