Environmental risks and hazards (Record no. 12909)

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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
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Place of publication New Delhi :
Name of publisher Prentice Hall of India Private Limited,
Year of publication ©1994.
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Number of Pages xvi, 413 p. :
Other physical details illustrations, maps ;
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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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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
Reference Main Library Main Library Reference 12/02/2004 Purchased 585.00 363.7 ENV 008364 Reference Books

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