Environmental hazards: assessing risk and reducing disaster
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London [u.a.]
Routledge
2001
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| Ausgabe: | 3. ed. |
| Schriftenreihe: | Routledge physical environment series
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| Online-Zugang: | Inhaltsverzeichnis |
| Beschreibung: | XXIV, 392 S. Ill., graph. Darst., Kt. |
| ISBN: | 0415224632 0415224640 |
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| adam_text | Titel: Environmental hazards
Autor: Smith, Keith
Jahr: 2001
Contents
List of plates ix
List of figures x
List of tables xv
Preface to the third edition xvii
Preface to the first edition xviii
Acknowledgements xx
PART I
The nature of hazard 1
1 Hazard in the environment 3
Hazard in context 3
Hazard and risk 6
What are environmental hazards? 11
A typology of hazard and disaster 18
From hazard to disaster 22
2 Dimensions of disaster 28
Auditing disaster 28
Patterns of disaster 32
Disaster trends 39
Paradigms of hazard 48
Towards a balanced view of disaster 53
3 Risk assessment and disaster management 55
The nature of risk 5 5
Risk assessment 59
Extreme event analysis 62
Risk perception and communication 67
Disaster management 72
Information technology 77
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4 Adjustment to hazard: accepting and sharing the loss 81
Range of adjustments 81
Choice of adjustments 81
Accepting the loss 83
Sharing the loss 84
5 Adjustment to hazard: reducing the loss 100
The options for reducing the loss 100
Event modification 101
Vulnerability modification 107
PART II
The experience and reduction of hazard 123
6 Tectonic hazards: earthquakes 125
Earthquake hazards 125
The nature of earthquakes 121
Primary earthquake hazards 130
Secondary earthquake hazards 133
Loss-sharing adjustments 138
Event modification adjustments 141
Vulnerability modification adjustments 147
7 Tectonic hazards: volcanoes 156
Volcanic hazards 156
Primary volcanic hazards 159
Secondary volcanic hazards 164
Loss-sharing adjustments 166
Event modification adjustments 167
Vulnerability modification adjustments 111
8 Mass movement hazards 180
Landslide and avalanche hazards 180
Landslides 183
Snow avalanches 191
Loss-sharing adjustments 196
Event modification adjustments 196
Vulnerability modification adjustments 202
Contents vii
9 Severe storm hazards 209
Atmospheric hazards 209
Tropical cyclone hazards 213
Nature of tropical cyclones 216
Severe summer storms 222
Severe winter storms 225
Loss-sharing adjustments 228
Event modification adjustments 230
Vulnerability modification adjustments 233
10 Biophysical hazards: temperature extremes, epidemics
and wildfires 239
Biophysical hazards 239
Physiological hazards 240
Frost hazards in agriculture 242
Epidemics 244
Wildfire hazards 248
11 Hydrological hazards: floods 259
Flood hazards 259
Causes of floods 267
Loss-sharing adjustments 214
Event modification adjustments 278
Vulnerability modification adjustments 283
12 Hydrological hazards: droughts 289
Drought hazards 289
Types of drought 291
Causes of drought 297
Loss-sharing adjustments 304
Event modification adjustments 301
Vulnerability modification adjustments 310
13 Technological hazards 316
Nature of technological hazards 316
Technological hazards in the twentieth century 318
The significance of technological hazards 323
The disasters at Bhopal and Chernobyl 328
Loss-sharing adjustments 331
Event modification adjustments 333
Vulnerability modification adjustments 334
viii Contents
14 Conclusion 340
The challenges and opportunities of hazard 340
The challenges of hazard 341
The opportunities of hazard 348
Appendix: Abridged Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale 353
References 355
Subject index 381
Geographical index 388
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