TY  - BOOK
AU  - SMITH Keith
TI  - Environmental hazards: assessing risk and reducing disaster
SN  - 0415122031 (hbk.):
PY  - 1996///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
KW  - DISASTER MANAGEMENT
KW  - DISASTERS
KW  - ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS
N2  - 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
ER  -