Research Catalog

Title

The environment as hazard / Ian Burton, Robert W. Kates, Gilbert F. White.

Author

Burton, Ian, 1935-

Publication

New York : Guilford Press, ©1993.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kates, Robert W. (Robert William), 1929-
• White, Gilbert F.

Description

xiv, 290 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm

Summary

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.

Subject

• Natural disasters
• Air > Pollution
• Land use > Environmental aspects
• Emergency management
• Natural Disasters
• Air > Pollution
• Disaster Planning
• natural disasters
• air pollution
• disaster planning
• Emergency management
• Land use > Environmental aspects
• Natural disasters

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

IS THE ENVIRONMENT BECOMING MORE HAZARDOUS?: Bangladesh, 1970 -- Tropical Storm Agnes, 1972 -- Trends in losses -- Global events -- Selected hazards in the United States -- Policy and organization -- Bangladesh and Tropical Storm Agnes revisited -- Features in common -- A crucial time -- HAZARD, RESPONSE, AND CHOICE: Extreme events in nature and natural hazards -- Environmental parameters for human response -- Response to hazards -- Choices and decisions -- THE RANGE OF EXPERIENCE: Agricultural drought -- Flood -- Tropical cyclone -- Air pollution -- Hazard and the national experience -- Development and the national experience -- INDIVIDUAL CHOICE: How do people choose adjustments? -- Elements in the choice process -- Comparative study sites -- Appraising hazard -- Characteristic appraisals and choices -- Four behavior patterns -- Implications of individual choice -- COLLECTIVE ACTION: Collective life -- Adjustments -- Processes of choice -- The appraisal of hazard -- Perception and creation of adjustments -- Adoption of adjustments -- Maintenance and change -- NATIONAL POLICY: National appraisals of hazard -- National experience in coping -- Types of national policies -- Directions for national policy -- INTERNATIONAL ACTION: What is worth sharing? -- What is worth doing jointly? -- NATURAL EXTREMES AND SOCIAL RESILIENCE: Modes of coping -- The mix of adjustments -- The causes of natural disaster -- Environmental change -- Societal change -- Is a less hazardous environment attainable? -- EMERGING SYNTHESIS: The reach of research -- The international decade for natural disaster reduction -- The challenge of global environmental change.

ISBN

• 0898621593
• 9780898621594

LCCN

92033125

OCLC

• ocm26587800
• 26587800
• SCSB-8812997

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library