Environmental risks and hazards (Record no. 12909)
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fixed length control field | 03693nam a2200217 a 4500 |
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ISBN | 8120315049 |
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ISBN | 9788120315044 |
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ISBN | 0137538561 |
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ISBN | 9780137538560 |
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Classification number | 363.7 |
Item number | ENV |
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Title | Environmental risks and hazards |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
Place of publication | New Delhi : |
Name of publisher | Prentice Hall of India Private Limited, |
Year of publication | ©1994. |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
Number of Pages | xvi, 413 p. : |
Other physical details | illustrations, maps ; |
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
General note | Included Index. |
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Formatted contents note | Preface. Isn't any place safe anymore? / Susan L. Cutter --<br/>Part I. Beginnings. Natural hazards research / Gilbert F. White --<br/>Disaster studies: an analysis of the social historical factors affecting the development of research in the area / E.L. Quarantelli --<br/>Risk analysis and risk management: an historical perspective / Vincent T. Covello and Jeryl Mumpower --<br/>Social benefit versus technological risk / Chauncey Starr --<br/>Paths to risk analysis / Gilbert F. White --<br/>Part II. Theoretical innovations. Natural hazard in human ecological perspective: hypotheses and models / Robert W. Kates --<br/>Taking the naturalness out of natural disasters / Phil O'Keefe, Ken Westgate, and Ben Wisner --<br/>A contextual model of natural hazard / James K. Mitchell, Neal Devine, and Kathleen Jagger --<br/>The social amplification of risk: a conceptual framework / roger e. Kasperson, Ortwin Renn, Paul Slovic, Halina S. Brown, Jacque Emel, Robert Goble, Jeanne X. Kasperson, and Samuel Ratick --<br/>Bringing social theory to hazards research / William C. Bogard --<br/>En-gendered fears: femininity and technological risk perception / Susan L. Cutter, John Tiefenbacher, and William D. Solecki --<br/>Part III. Responding to threats. Perception of risk / Paul Slovic --<br/>Theories of risk perception: who fears what and why? / Aaron Wildavsky and Karl Dake --<br/>Human adjustment to the risk of environmental extremes / Dennis S. Mileti --<br/>Public response to earthquake hazard information / Risa I. Palm --<br/>Evacuation decision-making in natural disasters / Ronald W. Perry --<br/>Evacuation behavior in response to nuclear power plant accidents / Donald J. Ziegler and James H. Johnson, Jr. Part IV. Improving management. Risk assessment and comparisons: an introduction / Richard Wilson and E.A.C. Crouch --<br/>Perceived risk, real risk: social science and the art of probabi9listic risk assessment / William r. Freudenburg --<br/>Science and its limits: the regulator's dilemma / Alvin M. Weinberg --<br/>Risk assessment and regulatory priorities / Lester B. Lave --<br/>Success, strain, and surprise / Robert W. Kates --<br/>Part V. Emerging and recurring issues. The chronic technical disaster: toward a social scientific perspective / Stephen R. Couch and J. Stephen Kroll-Smith --<br/>Health effects of environmental chemicals / Michael R. Greenberg --<br/>Emergency planning for chemical agent releases / George O. Rogers, John H. Sorenson, John F. Long, Jr., and Denzel Fisher --<br/>Vulnerability to global environmental change / Diana M. Liverman --<br/>Chasing a specter: risk management for global environmental change / Timothy O'Riordan and Steve Rayner --<br/>The social space of terror: towards a civil interpretation of total war / Kenneth Hewitt --<br/>The dignity of risk / Julian Wolpert. |
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Summary, etc | A collection of seminal works in the field of environmental hazards. This title integrates various social science perspectives - hazards (geography), disasters (sociology), and risk (economics, psychology) - and features articles selected for their views on the acceptability of risks and hazards and the social choices made as to their management. |
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Topical Term | Environmental risk assessment. |
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Topical Term | Environmental issues. |
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Personal name | Cutter, Susan L. (Editor) |
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Koha item type | Reference Books |
Collection code | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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Reference | Main Library | Main Library | Reference | 12/02/2004 | Purchased | 585.00 | 363.7 ENV | 008364 | Reference Books |