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The Environment As Hazard (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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The Environment As Hazard (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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The Environment as Hazard offers an understanding of how people
around the world deal with dramatic fluctuations in the local
natural systems of air, water, and terrain. Reviewing recent
theoretical and methodological changes in the investigation of
natural hazards, the authors describe how research findings are
being incorporated into public policy, particularly research on
slow cumulative events, technological hazards, the role played by
social systems, and the relation of hazards theory to risk
analysis. Through vivid examples from a broad sample of countries,
this volume illuminates the range of experiences associated with
natural hazards. The authors show how modes of coping change with
levels of economic development by contrasting hazards in developing
countries with those in high income countries - comparing the
results of hurricanes in Bangladesh and the United States, and
earthquakes in Nicaragua and California.
In new introductory and concluding chapters that supplement the
original text, the authors present new global data sets, as well as
a trenchant discussion of implications of hazards research for the
International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction and for
attempts by the world community to come to grips with the threats
of climate change.
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