Natural hazards and environmental change / Bill McGuire, Ian Mason, Christopher Kilburn.

This text highlights and critically evaluates the accumulating evidence for an intimate link between natural hazards - both in terms of type and frequency - and environmental change.

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Main Author: McGuire, Bill, 1954-
Other Authors: Mason, Ian (Ian M.), Kilburn, Christopher R. J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : New York : Arnold ; Oxford University Press, 2002.
Series:Key issues in environmental change.
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Table of Contents:
  • Natural hazards : an introduction
  • Windstorms in a warmer world
  • Floods and other weather-related hazards in a changing climate
  • Landslides and environmental change
  • Volcanoes and environmental change
  • Sea-level change as a trigger of natural hazards
  • Asteroid and comet impacts as initiators of environmental change
  • Environmental change and natural hazards : prospects for the future.