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Environmental Hazards
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Author : Keith Smith
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2001
Environmental Hazards written by Keith Smith and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Nature categories.
Topics include : risk assessment, disaster management, adjustment to the hazard (accepting, sharing, reducing loss), earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, snow avalances, storms, biophysical hazards (extreme temperatures, epidemics, frost, wildlifires), floods, droughts, technological hazards (i.e. Bhopal and Chernobyl), etc.
Biological And Environmental Hazards Risks And Disasters
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Author : Ramesh Sivanpillai
language : en
Publisher: Elsevier
Release Date : 2023-06-22
Biological And Environmental Hazards Risks And Disasters written by Ramesh Sivanpillai and has been published by Elsevier this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-22 with Science categories.
Biological and Environmental Hazards, Risks, and Disasters, Second Edition provides an integrated look at major impacts to the Earth’s biosphere caused by diseases, algal blooms, insects, animals, species extinction, deforestation, land degradation, and comet and asteroid strikes, with important implications for humans. This second edition from Elsevier’s Hazards and Disasters Series incorporates perspectives from the natural and social sciences to offer in-depth coverage of threats from microscopic organisms to celestial objects and their potential impacts. Contributions from expert biological, health, ecological, environmental, wildlife, physical, and health scientists, readers will gain valuable insights on damages, causality, economic impacts, preparedness, and mitigation. Provides inter- and multi-disciplinary research accessible to both specialists and non-specialists Includes newly added chapters on emerging hazards and risks to earth’s ecosystems (land conversion and habitat loss) and human health (spread of diseases) Contains full-color tables, maps, diagrams, illustrations, and photographs of hazardous processes
Risk Assessment Of Environmental Hazard
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Author : Robert William Kates
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 1978
Risk Assessment Of Environmental Hazard written by Robert William Kates and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Mathematics categories.
Revised version of a background paper presented by the author to the Workshop on Comparative Risk Assessment of Environmental Hazards in an International Context, held at Woods Hole, Mass., March 31-April 4, 1975. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 101-107.
Environmental Hazards
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Author : Keith Smith
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2003-09-02
Environmental Hazards written by Keith Smith and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-09-02 with Science categories.
The fourth edition of Environmental Hazards continues to blend physical and social sciences to provide a thoroughly balanced, contemporary introduction to hazards analysis and mitigation strategies. It covers all the major rapid-onset events, whether natural, human or technological in origin which directly threaten humans and what they value. Environmental Hazards provides a lucid comprehensive introduction to both the theory and practice of hazards and their mitigation, drawing on interdisciplinary insights. It is essential reading for students of geography, environmental science, earth science and geology.
Environmental Hazards And Disasters
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Author : Bimal Kanti Paul
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2011-11-30
Environmental Hazards And Disasters written by Bimal Kanti Paul and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-30 with Nature categories.
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 interpretations for why natural disasters occur. In such interpretations they often either blame others, in order to conceal their inability to protect themselves, or they blame themselves, attributing the events to either real or imagined misdeeds. The book contains a chapter devoted to the neglected topic of such reactions and explanations. Includes chapters on key topics such as the application of GIS in hazard studies; resiliency; disasters and poverty; climate change and sustainability and development. This book is designed as a primary text for an interdisciplinary course on hazards for upper-level undergraduate and Graduate students. Although not targeted for an introductory hazards course, students in such a course may find it very useful as well. Additionally, emergency managers, planners, and both public and private organizations involved in disaster response, and mitigation could benefit from this book along with hazard researchers. It not only includes traditional and popular hazard topics (e.g., disaster cycles, disaster relief, and risk and vulnerability), it also includes neglected topics, such as the positive impacts of disasters, disaster myths and different accounts of disasters, and disasters and gender.
Environmental Hazards
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Author : Eugene Willard Miller
language : en
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Release Date : 1989-05
Environmental Hazards written by Eugene Willard Miller and has been published by ABC-CLIO this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-05 with Political Science categories.
An excellent source on topics ranging from acid rain...to the Greenhouse Effect.
Environmental Hazards Methodologies For Risk Assessment And Management
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Author : Nicolas R. Dalezios
language : en
Publisher: IWA Publishing
Release Date : 2017-02-15
Environmental Hazards Methodologies For Risk Assessment And Management written by Nicolas R. Dalezios and has been published by IWA Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-15 with Science categories.
From the beginning of 21st century, there has been an awareness of risk in the environment along with a growing concern for the continuing potential damage caused by hazards. In order to ensure environmental sustainability, a better understanding of natural disasters and their impacts is essential. It has been recognized that a holistic and integrated approach to environmental hazards needs to be attempted using common methodologies, such as risk analysis, which involves risk management and risk assessment. Indeed, risk management means reducing the threats posed by known hazards, whereas at the same time accepting unmanageable risks and maximizing any related benefits. The risk management framework involves evaluating the importance of a risk, either quantitatively or qualitatively. Risk assessment comprises three steps, namely risk identification (data base, event monitoring, statistical inference), risk estimation (magnitude, frequency, economic costs) and risk evaluation (cost-benefit analysis). Nevertheless, the risk management framework also includes a fourth step, risk governance, i.e. the need for a feedback of all the risk assessment undertakings. There is currently a lack of such feedback which constitutes a serious deficiency in the reduction of environmental hazards. This book emphasises methodological approaches and procedures of the three main components in the study of environmental hazards, namely forecasting - nowcasting (before), monitoring (during) and assessment (after), based on geoinformatic technologies and data and simulation through examples and case studies. These are considered within the risk management framework and, in particular, within the three components of risk assessment, namely risk identification, risk estimation and risk evaluation. This approach is a contemporary and innovative procedure and constitutes current research in the field of environmental hazards. Environmental Hazards Methodologies for Risk Assessment and Management covers hydrological hazards (floods, droughts, storms, hail, desertification), biophysical hazards (frost, heat waves, epidemics, forest fires), geological hazards (landslides, snow avalanches), tectonic hazards (earthquakes, volcanoes), and technological hazards. This book provides a text and a resource on environmental hazards for senior undergraduate students, graduate students on all courses related to environmental hazards and risk assessment and management. It is a valuable handbook for researchers and professionals of environmental science, environmental economics and management, and engineering. Editor: Nicolas R. Dalezios, University of Thessaly, Greece
Environmental Health Risk Assessment
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Environmental Health Risk Assessment written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Electronic books categories.
This document provides a national approach to environmental health risk assessment. The document presents a general environmental health risk assessment methodology applicable to the range of environmental health hazards.
Environmental Hazards And Human Health
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Author : Richard B. Philp
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 1995-04-13
Environmental Hazards And Human Health written by Richard B. Philp and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-04-13 with Science categories.
The need for government regulation of the use and disposal of toxic chemicals, and the nature of the risk associated with them, is certain to increase over the next few years. Information concerning the hazards of new chemicals will also emerge. The high cost of completely eliminating some synthetic chemicals from the environment makes it essential to have an appreciation of their real, relative risks against the background of natural hazards encountered daily. This text is the only one currently available that addresses these questions and provides a knowledge base of the principles of toxicology (pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, toxicity testing, and so on), describes mechanistically the major natural and anthropogenic toxicants in the environment, and applies this knowledge to an understanding of the nature and extent of risks that are posed to society at large as well as to the work force. This text differs from similar ones by placing xenobiotics of human origin in perspective to naturally occurring ones. Examples of industrial accidents are used liberally, and 24 case studies of toxic reactions, taken from real occurrences, are included. Review questions provide an opportunity for self-evaluation.
Biological And Environmental Hazards Risks And Disasters
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Author : Ramesh Sivanpillai
language : en
Publisher: Elsevier
Release Date : 2015-11-17
Biological And Environmental Hazards Risks And Disasters written by Ramesh Sivanpillai and has been published by Elsevier this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-17 with Science categories.
Biological and Environmental Hazards, Risks, and Disasters provides an integrated look at major impacts to the Earth’s biosphere. Many of these are caused by diseases, algal blooms, insects, animals, species extinction, deforestation, land degradation, and comet and asteroid strikes that have important implications for humans. This volume, from Elsevier’s Hazards and Disasters Series, provides an in-depth view of threats, ranging from microscopic organisms to celestial objects. Perspectives from both natural and social sciences provide an in-depth understanding of potential impacts. Contributions from expert ecologists, environmental, biological, and agricultural scientists, and public health specialists selected by a world-renowned editorial board Presents the latest research on damages, causality, economic impacts, fatality rates, and preparedness and mitigation Contains tables, maps, diagrams, illustrations, and photographs of hazardous processes