Seção: LivrosTítulo: Environmental hazards : assessing risk and reducing disaster / Keith SmithAutor: Smith, KeithPublicação: London ; New York : Routledge, 1992Descrição física: XX, 324 p. : graf. e il. ; 24 cmSérie: (Routledge physical environment series)Notas: 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 tecnológicoChernobylSerie secundária: Routledge physical environment seriesOutras classificações: 834.1Números normalizados: ISBN 0-415-01217-1Direitos: In Copyright (InC)Referencias externas: