Bryant, Edward

Natural Hazards - 2nd,ed. - New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. - 312p.

1. Introduction to natural hazards; Part I. Climatic Hazards: 2. Large-scale storms; 3. Wind as a hazard; 4. Oceanographic hazards; 5. Causes and prediction of drought and flood; 6. Heavy precipitation as a hazard; Part II. geological Hazards: 7. Causes and prediction of earthquakes and volcanoes; 8. Earthquakes and tsunamis as hazards; 9. Volcanoes as a hazard; 10. Land instability as a hazard; 11. Response to hazards; Appendix: 12. Statistical methods for use in hazard analysis.

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Interdisciplinary.
Climatic Hazards.
Earthquakes and tsunamis.

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