Environmental Hazards

by Keith Smith

Environmental Hazards covers all major rapid-onset events, whether natural, human or technological in origin, which directly threaten human life on a community scale.
This substantially revised and expanded 2nd edition includes important new global case studies and new sections on risk management and epidemics, disaster trends and Third World vulnerability, remote sensing, mass movements and droughts. Drawing from the most recent research, this edition offers an important new contribution in the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction and an essential text for students.

Genres: Geography, Reference

416 pages, Hardcover

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.