TY  - BOOK
AU  - Paul,Bimal Kanti
TI  - Environmental hazards and disasters: contexts, perspectives and management 
SN  - 9781119979616
AV  - GF85 .P38 2011eb
U1  - 363.3406 23
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Chichester
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
KW  - Hazardous geographic environments
KW  - Disasters
KW  - Natural disasters
KW  - Human ecology
KW  - NATURE
KW  - Natural Disasters
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Disasters & Disaster Relief
KW  - fast
KW  - Naturkatastrophe
KW  - gnd
KW  - Risiko
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; ps
N2  - Environmental Hazards and Disasters: Contexts, Perspectives and Management focuses on manifested threats to humans and their welfare as a result of natural disasters. The book uses an integrative approach to address socio-cultural, political and physical components of the disaster process. Human and social vulnerability as well as risk to environmental hazards are explored within the comprehensive context of diverse natural hazards and disasters. In addition to scientific explanations of disastrous occurrences, people and governments of hazard-prone countries often have their own interpretation
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9781119979616
ER  -