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Natural Hazards - Earth's Processes as Hazards, Disasters, and Catastrophes (Paperback, 5th edition)
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Natural Hazards - Earth's Processes as Hazards, Disasters, and Catastrophes (Paperback, 5th edition)
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The new revised fifth edition of Natural Hazards remains the go-to
introductory-level survey intended for university and college
courses that are concerned with earth processes that have direct,
and often sudden and violent, impacts on human society. The text
integrates principles of geology, hydrology, meteorology,
climatology, oceanography, soil science, ecology, and solar system
astronomy. The textbook explains the earth processes that drive
hazardous events in an understandable way, illustrates how these
processes interact with our civilization, and describes how we can
better adjust to their effects. Written by leading scholars in the
area, the new edition of this book takes advantage of the greatly
expanding amount of information regarding natural hazards,
disasters, and catastrophes. The text is designed for learning,
with chapters broken into small consumable chunks of content for
students. Each chapter opens with a list of learning objectives and
ends with revision as well as high-level critical thinking
questions. A Concepts in Review feature provides an innovative
end-of-chapter section that breaks down the chapter content by
parts: reviewing the learning objectives, summary points, important
visuals, and key terms. New case studies of hazardous events have
been integrated into the text, and students are invited to actively
apply their understanding of the five fundamental concepts that
serve as a conceptual framework for the text. Figures,
illustrations, and photos have been updated throughout. The book is
designed for a course in natural hazards for nonscience majors, and
a primary goal of the text is to assist instructors in guiding
students who may have little background in science to understand
physical earth processes as natural hazards and their consequences
to society.
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