Environmental hazards: assessing risk and reducing disaster
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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London u.a.
Routledge
1992
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| Ausgabe: | 1. publ. |
| Schriftenreihe: | Routledge physical environment series
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| Online-Zugang: | Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| Beschreibung: | XX, 324 S. Ill., graph. Darst. |
| ISBN: | 0415012163 0415012171 |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
List of plates viii
List of figures ix
List. of tables xiii
Preface xv
Acknowledgements xvii
Part I The Nature of Hazard
1 HAZARD IN THE ENVIRONMENT 3
Awareness of hazard 3
Hazard and risk 5
What are environmental hazards? 8
A typology of hazard and disaster 17
Hazard assessment and response 21
2 DIMENSIONS OF DISASTER 24
The scale of disaster 24
Vulnerability to disaster 30
Disaster trends 34
Paradigms of hazard 40
Towards a balanced view of disaster 44
3 RISK ASSESSMENT AND PERCEPTION 46
The nature of risk 46
Risk assessment 49
Extreme event analysis ՝ 52
Risk perception 57
Regional hazard ecology 63
4 ADJUSTMENT TO HAZARD: SHARING THE LOSS 66
Range of adjustments 66
Choice of adjustments 67
Accepting the loss 69
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CONTENTS
Sharing the loss: disaster aid 70
Sharing the loss: insurance 76
5 ADJUSTMENT TO HAZARD: REDUCING THE LOSS 81
The options for reducing the loss 81
Event modification: environmental control 83
Event modification: hazard-resistance 84
Vulnerability modification: preparedness 88
Vulnerability modification: forecasting and warning 91
Vulnerability modification: land use planning 96
Part II The Experience and Reduction of Hazard
6 SEISMIC HAZARDS: EARTHQUAKES 101
Earthquake hazards 101
Earthquake magnitude and intensity 105
Primary earthquake hazards: ground-shaking 106
Secondary earthquake hazards 111
Loss-sharing adjustments 116
Event modification adjustments 118
Vulnerability modification adjustments 125
7 SEISMIC HAZARDS: VOLCANOES 135
Volcanic hazards 135
Primary volcanic hazards 139
Secondary volcanic hazards 144
Loss-sharing adjustments 147
Event modification adjustments 148
Vulnerability modification adjustments 151
8 MASS MOVEMENT HAZARDS 160
Mass movement hazards 160
Rockfalls and landslides 162
Snow avalanches 166
Loss-sharing adjustments 168
Event modification adjustments 169
Vulnerability modification adjustments 174
9 ATMOSPHERIC HAZARDS: SEVERE STORMS 179
Atmospheric hazards 179
Impact of tropical cyclones 180
Nature of tropical cyclones 182
Severe summer storms 187
Severe winter storms 189
Loss-sharing adjustments 191
Event modification adjustments 194
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CONTENTS
Vulnerability modification adjustments 198
10 ATMOSPHERIC HAZARDS: TEMPERATURE EXTREMES
AND WILDFIRES 204
Temperature extremes and wildfires 204
Physiological hazards 204
Frost hazards on highways 206
Frost hazards in agriculture 208
Wildfire hazards 213
11 HYDROLOGIC HAZARDS: FLOODS 220
Flood hazards 220
Causes of floods 226
Loss-sharing adjustments 233
Event modification adjustments 236
Vulnerability modification adjustments 240
12 HYDROLOGIC HAZARDS: DROUGHTS 246
Drought hazards 246
Drought types and responses 249
Meteorological drought 251
Hydrological drought 253
Agricultural drought 257
Famine drought 260
13 TECHNOLOGIC HAZARDS 271
Recognition of technological hazards 271
Emergence of technological hazards 273
The disasters at Bhopal and Chernobyl 280
Future technological risks 281
Loss-sharing adjustments 283
Event modification adjustments 285
Vulnerability modification adjustments 286
14 CONCLUSION 291
The challenges and opportunities of hazard 291
Appendix 1 Abridged Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale 296
Appendix 2 Golden East avalanche path summary 298
References 299
Subject Index 313
Geographical Index 320
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