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| List of figures | |
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| List of plates | |
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| List of tables | |
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| List of boxes | |
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| Preface to the sixth edition | |
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| Preface to the first edition | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| The Nature of Hazard | |
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| Hazard in the environment | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What are environmental hazards? | |
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| Hazard, risk and disaster | |
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| Earlier perspectives | |
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| Current views: the complexity paradigm | |
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| The organizational context | |
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| Dimensions of disaster | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Defining disaster | |
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| Measuring disaster: archives | |
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| Explaining disaster: time trends | |
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| Explaining disaster: spatial patterns | |
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| Managing disaster | |
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| Complexity, sustainability and vulnerability | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Complexity science | |
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| Complexity and disasters | |
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| An example: the Bam earthquake | |
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| Sustainability and disasters | |
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| Vulnerability and resilience | |
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| Drivers of vulnerability and disaster | |
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| Risk assessment and management | |
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| The nature of risk | |
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| Risk assessment | |
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| Risk perception and communication | |
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| Risk perception in practice | |
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| Risk management | |
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| The role of information technology | |
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| Reducing the impacts of disaster | |
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| Scoping the task | |
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| Protection: hazard resistance | |
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| Mitigation: disaster aid | |
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| Mitigation: insurance | |
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| Adaptation: preparedness | |
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| Adaptation: predictions, forecasts and warnings | |
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| Adaptation: land use planning | |
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| The Experience and Reduction of Hazard | |
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| Tectonic hazards: earthquakes and tsunamis | |
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| Earthquake hazards | |
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| Earthquake behaviour | |
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| Primary earthquake hazards | |
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| Secondary earthquake hazards | |
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| Protection | |
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| Mitigation | |
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| Adaptation | |
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| Tectonic hazards: volcanoes | |
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| Volcanic hazards | |
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| The nature of volcanoes | |
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| Primary volcanic hazards | |
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| Secondary volcanic hazards | |
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| Protection | |
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| Mitigation | |
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| Adaptation | |
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| Mass movement hazards | |
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| Landslide and avalanche hazards | |
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| Landslides | |
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| Landslides: cause and triggers | |
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| Snow avalanches | |
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| Protection | |
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| Mitigation | |
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| Adaptation | |
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| Severe storm hazards | |
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| Atmospheric hazards | |
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| The nature of tropical cyclones | |
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| How tropical cyclones develop | |
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| Tropical cyclone hazards | |
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| Severe summer storms | |
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| Severe winter storms | |
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| Protection | |
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| Mitigation | |
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| Adaptation | |
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| Weather extremes, disease epidemics and wildfires | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Extreme temperature hazards | |
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| The nature of disease epidemics | |
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| Infectious diseases and climate | |
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| Disease hazard reduction | |
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| Wildfire hazards | |
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| The nature of wildfires | |
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| Wildfire hazard reduction | |
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| Hydrological hazards: floods | |
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| Flood hazards | |
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| Flood-prone environments | |
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| The nature of floods | |
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| Protection | |
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| Mitigation | |
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| Adaptation | |
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| Hydrological hazards: droughts | |
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| Drought hazards | |
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| Types of drought | |
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| Causes of drought hazards | |
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| Protection | |
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| Mitigation | |
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| Adaptation | |
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| Technological hazards | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The scale and nature of the hazard | |
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| An outline of theory | |
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| Technological hazards in practice | |
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| Perception: the transport and nuclear industries | |
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| Protection | |
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| Mitigation | |
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| Adaptation | |
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| Environmental hazards in a changing world | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The globalization of hazard | |
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| Environmental change | |
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| Air pollution and climate change | |
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| Geophysical paths to disaster | |
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| Climate change and environmental hazards | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |