Environmental hazards : assessing risk and reducing disaster - Smith, Keith, 1938- (London ; New York : Routledge, 2004)
I: The nature of hazard -- Hazard in the environment -- Dimensions of disaster -- Risk assessment and management -- Reducing the impacts of disaster -- II: The experience and reduction of hazard -- Tectonic hazards: earthquakes -- Tectonic hazards: volcanoes -- Mass movement hazards -- Severe storm hazards -- Biophysical hazards -- Hydrological hazards: floods -- Hydrological hazards: droughts -- Technological hazards -- Context hazards -- Postscript.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [272]-299) and index.
Keywords: Natural disasters; Disasters; Environmental risk assessment