Natural Hazards and Environmental Change

by Ian Mason, Christopher Kilburn, Bill McGuire, et al.

Book Overview

This important new book highlights and critically evaluates the accumulating evidence for an intimate link between natural hazards and environmental change. Surveying a unique collection of themes, this link is examined from two viewpoints: firstly, how environmental change can contribute to an increased level of hazardous natural phenomenon, and secondly how natural hazards may themselves lead to environmental change on a local, regional or even...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0340742208
• ISBN13: 9780340742204
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Hodder Education Publishers
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.4" x 9.6"