Environmental Disasters
Anthropogenic and Natural
Published on 1. August 2002
Book
Hardback
400 pages
978-3-540-43303-3 (ISBN)
Description
As the impacts of environmental disasters on populations and their economic activity increase, the assessment of risk from such catastrophic events becomes more urgent not only for humankind, but also for other living organisms. This book details the problems caused by such environmental disasters and discusses possible mitigation methods, including risk mapping using satellite monitoring data.
Reviews / Votes
From the reviews:
"The book offers a survey of the most significant natural and human-induced disasters that took place in the historic past. . The book will be of great interest to environmental geologists, meteorologists, and space astronauts." (Fakhry A. Assaad, Environmental Geology, Vol. 48 (8), 2005)
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Heidelberg
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
100 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Weight
1180 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-540-43303-3 (9783540433033)
Schweitzer Classification
Content
Natural and anthropogenic environmental disasters: The problem of risk; Natural and anthropogenic disasters in the history of civilization; Natural disasters and their consequences; Some anthropogenic disasters and their consequences; Global and regional "slow" disasters; Satellite monitoring of natural and anthropogenic disasters.