TY - BOOK AU - Cutter, Susan L. (Editor) TI - Environmental risks and hazards SN - 8120315049 U1 - 363.7 PY - 1994/// CY - New Delhi PB - Prentice Hall of India Private Limited KW - Environmental risk assessment KW - Environmental issues N1 - Included Index; Preface. Isn't any place safe anymore? / Susan L. Cutter -- Part I. Beginnings. Natural hazards research / Gilbert F. White -- Disaster studies: an analysis of the social historical factors affecting the development of research in the area / E.L. Quarantelli -- Risk analysis and risk management: an historical perspective / Vincent T. Covello and Jeryl Mumpower -- Social benefit versus technological risk / Chauncey Starr -- Paths to risk analysis / Gilbert F. White -- Part II. Theoretical innovations. Natural hazard in human ecological perspective: hypotheses and models / Robert W. Kates -- Taking the naturalness out of natural disasters / Phil O'Keefe, Ken Westgate, and Ben Wisner -- A contextual model of natural hazard / James K. Mitchell, Neal Devine, and Kathleen Jagger -- 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 -- Bringing social theory to hazards research / William C. Bogard -- En-gendered fears: femininity and technological risk perception / Susan L. Cutter, John Tiefenbacher, and William D. Solecki -- Part III. Responding to threats. Perception of risk / Paul Slovic -- Theories of risk perception: who fears what and why? / Aaron Wildavsky and Karl Dake -- Human adjustment to the risk of environmental extremes / Dennis S. Mileti -- Public response to earthquake hazard information / Risa I. Palm -- Evacuation decision-making in natural disasters / Ronald W. Perry -- 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 -- Perceived risk, real risk: social science and the art of probabi9listic risk assessment / William r. Freudenburg -- Science and its limits: the regulator's dilemma / Alvin M. Weinberg -- Risk assessment and regulatory priorities / Lester B. Lave -- Success, strain, and surprise / Robert W. Kates -- Part V. Emerging and recurring issues. The chronic technical disaster: toward a social scientific perspective / Stephen R. Couch and J. Stephen Kroll-Smith -- Health effects of environmental chemicals / Michael R. Greenberg -- Emergency planning for chemical agent releases / George O. Rogers, John H. Sorenson, John F. Long, Jr., and Denzel Fisher -- Vulnerability to global environmental change / Diana M. Liverman -- Chasing a specter: risk management for global environmental change / Timothy O'Riordan and Steve Rayner -- The social space of terror: towards a civil interpretation of total war / Kenneth Hewitt -- The dignity of risk / Julian Wolpert N2 - 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 ER -