Environmental Hazards - Assessing Risk and Reducing Disaster

The seventh edition of Environmental Hazards provides a much expanded and fully up-to-date overview of all the extreme environmental events that threaten people and what they value in the 21st century globally.

List of contents

Foreword by Mami Mizutori Part One: The Nature of Hazard Chapter 1 – Hazard in the Environment Chapter 2 – Dimensions of Disaster Chapter 3 – Vulnerability, Resilience, and Sustainability Chapter 4 – Risk Assessment and Management Chapter 5 – Disaster Risk Reduction Part Two: The Experience and Reduction of Hazard Chapter 6 – Earthquake hazards Chapter 7 – Volcanic hazards Chapter 8 – Tsunami hazards Chapter 9 – Mass Movements Chapter 10 – Storms Chapter 11 – Floods Chapter 12 – Drought Chapter 13 – Extreme Temperatures Chapter 14 – Wildfires Chapter 15 – Epidemic Diseases Part Three: Environmental Hazard and Risk in an Anthropocene Chapter 16 – Anthropocene Changes Chapter 17 – Industrial and Waste Hazards Chapter 18 – Climate and Beyond Chapter 19 – Using Environmental Hazards Knowledge for Action

About the author

Keith Smith was Emeritus Professor at the University of Stirling, UK.
Carina J. Fearnley is Professor in Science Communication and Warning Research at University College London in the Department of Science and Technology Studies.
Deborah Dixon is Professor of Geography in the School of Geographical & Earth Sciences at the University of Glasgow, UK.
Deanne K. Bird is Adjunct Research Fellow at the Monash University Disaster Resilience Initiative, Australia, and a Research Specialist with the Nordic Centre of Excellence on Resilience and Societal Security (NORDRESS), University of Iceland.
Ilan Kelman is Professor of Disasters and Health in the Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction and Institute for Global Health at the University College London, UK and Professor II at the University of Agder, Norway.

Summary

The seventh edition of Environmental Hazards provides a much expanded and fully up-to-date overview of all the extreme environmental events that threaten people and what they value in the 21st century globally.

Product details

• Authors: Deanne K. Bird, Deborah Dixon, Dixon Deborah, Carina J. Fearnley, Ilan Kelman, Kelman Ilan, Smith, Keith Smith, Keith (University of Stirling Smith, Keith Fearnley Smith
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9780815365402
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-6540-2
• No. of pages: 632
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Agriculture, horticulture; forestry, fishing, food; SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disasters & Disaster Relief, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / General, environmental science, engineering & technology, Science / Environmental Science, Agricultural science, Physical geography & topography, Natural disasters, Human Geography, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Physical geography and topography