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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. It integrates cutting-edge materials to provide an interdisciplinary... Read Full Overview

The much expanded sixth edition of Environmental Hazards provides a fully up-to-date overview of all the extreme events that threaten people and what they value in the 21st century. It integrates cutting-edge material from the physical and social sciences to illustrate... Read Full Overview

The much expanded sixth edition of Environmental Hazards provides a fully up-to-date overview of all the extreme events that threaten people and what they value in the 21st century. It integrates cutting-edge material from the physical and social sciences to illustrate... Read Full Overview

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. It integrates cutting-edge materials to provide an interdisciplinary... Read Full Overview

Natural hazards have always been a part of human history. But, in the modern world, there is an increasing paradox between the outstanding achievements of science and medicine and the continuing destruction associated with extremes of nature. Science itself is not without hazard... Read Full Overview

An examination of all major rapid-onset events - seismic, mass movement, atmospheric, hydrologic and technologic hazards - which directly threaten human life on a community scale. The study describes how, despite diverse origins and impacts, these hazards create similar disaster-reduction... Read Full Overview