1. Environmental
Hazards: Assessing Risk
and Reducing
Disaster, 3rd edition By Keith
Smith.
Routledge - (December 2000); ISBN: 0415224640
Book Description:
An objective, up to date and thoughtful introduction to
key findings from the natural social sciences, this
edition contains new material on disaster databases, El
Nino events, sea-level rise and coastal flooding,
mega-cities and sustainability, epidemics, storms, IT
and disasters. Read more...
A complete handbook for conducting risk assessments
for environmental and occupational health hazards. Read more...
3.Ecosystems
and Human
Health:
Toxicology and
Environmental
Hazards, 2nd Edition
By Richard B.
Philp
Lewis Publishers, Inc. - (June 2001); ISBN: 1566705681
Book Description:
Renamed to reflect the expanded scope of the second
edition, Ecosystems and Human Health: Toxicology and
Environmental Hazards builds on the foundation
created by the author in the first edition, Environmental
Hazards and Human Health. Written in a journalistic,
easily accessible style, this book bridges the gap
between toxicology and environmental sciences by
exploring man-made and natural hazards, and the risks
they pose to wildlife and human health. See what's
new in the Second... Read more...
4.Drought: A Global
Assessment, 2
Volume Set
(Hazards &
Disasters)
By Donald A. Wilhite, Editor
Routledge - February
2000); ISBN: 0415168333
Book Description:
Including an extensive range of case studies covering the most drought-prone and most affected countries, the contributors
examine technologies, planning methodologies and mitigation actions from recent drought experiences world-wide. Read more...
Book Description:
Comet and Asteroid Impact Hazards explores the
anticipated consequences of comet and asteroid
impact. It presents the first computer simulations of
the hazards of comet and asteroid bombardment of a
populated Earth. Previous estimates of fatality and
damage rates on the 100 to 10,000 year time scale are
shown to be too low because they neglect rare, highly
lethal outriders of the populations of bombarding
objects... Read more...
6.Healthy Home
Kit:
Inspecting for
Environmental
Hazards
Working With
Professionals
to Avoid Risks
Cleaning Up
Radon, Lead,
Asbestos and
More!
By Ingrid Ritchie,
et al
Dearborn Publishing -(October 1994); ISBN: 0793108985
7.How Much Risk: A
Guide to
Environmental
Health Hazards
By Inge F. Goldstein and
Martin Goldstein
Oxford University Press - (November 2001); ISBN: 0195139941
9.Uncertain
Hazards:
Environmental
Activists and
Scientific Proof
By Sylvia Noble
Tesh
Cornell Univ Press - (June 2000); ISBN: 0801435331
Book Description:
Ordinary citizens frequently organize around
environmental issues on which little scientific evidence
exists to back activists' claims. Should we then dismiss
such claims as spurious? Or should we side with
citizens against the polluters? Read more...
10.Disasters by Design: A
Reassessment of Natural
Hazards in the United
States By Dennis S. Mileti
National Academy Press - (July 1999); ISBN: 0309063604
