Environmental Hazards Assessing Risk and Reducing Disaster

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.Smith, Keith is the author of 'Environmental Hazards Assessing Risk and Reducing Disaster' with ISBN 9780415122030 and ISBN 0415122031.