Section: BooksTitle: Environmental hazards : assessing risk and reducing disaster / Keith SmithAuthor: Smith, KeithPublication: London ; New York : Routledge, 1992Physical description: XX, 324 p. : graf. e il. ; 24 cmSeries: (Routledge physical environment series)Notes: Bibliografía : P. 299-312Sumario: Hazard in the environment -- Dimensions of disaster -- Risk assessment and perception -- Adjustment to hazard: sharing the loss -- Adjustment to hazard: reducing the loss -- Seismic hazards: earthquakes -- Seismic hazards: volcanoes -- Mass movement hazards -- Atmospheric hazards: severe storms -- Atmospheric hazards: temperature extremes and wildfires -- Hydrologic hazards: floods -- Hydrologic hazards: droughts -- Technologic hazards.Materia / lugar / evento: Accidentes mayoresMedio ambienteCatástrofes naturalesRiesgos meteorológicosRiesgos extraordinariosRiesgo tecnológicoChernobylSecondary series: Routledge physical environment seriesOther categories: 834.1Standard numbers: ISBN 0-415-01217-1Rights: In Copyright (InC)Referencias externas: