Environment as Hazard

by Robert W. Kates and Ian Burton

Book Overview

The disastrous effects of natural hazards such as earthquakes, floods, and hurricanes are often called "Acts of God." Challenging that view, this work depicts natural hazards as extreme events in nature that are made even more dangerous by the acts or the neglect of people. Since the beginning of the 20th century, the toll on society resulting from such environmental episodes has changed significantly in several ways--while fatalities from major events...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195022211
• ISBN13: 9780195022216
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.