Succeed in your course with Hyndman/Hyndman's NATURAL HAZARDS AND DISASTERS, 6e. The authors provide easy-to-understand coverage of the geological processes that underlie disasters, explore the impacts these processes and humans have on each other and analyze strategies to mitigate physical and financial harm. From timely information on recent natural disasters in the US and around the world, this fascinating book provides the up-to-date information needed to analyze potential hazards and take necessary steps to survive a natural disaster.
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Natural Hazards and Disasters
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Biological SciencesTable of contents
- Cover
- About the Authors
- Brief Contents
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Natural Hazards and Disasters
- Chapter 2: Plate Tectonics and Physical Hazards
- Chapter 3: Earthquakes and Their Causes
- Chapter 4: Earthquake Predictions, Forecasts, and Mitigation
- Chapter 5: Tsunami
- Chapter 6: Volcanoes: Tectonic Environments and Eruptions
- Chapter 7: Volcanoes: Hazards and Mitigation
- Chapter 8: Landslides and Other Downslope Movements
- Chapter 9: Sinkholes, Land Subsidence, and Swelling Soils
- Chapter 10: Weather, Thunderstorms, and Tornadoes
- Chapter 11: Climate Change: Processes and History
- Chapter 12: Climate Change: Impacts and Mitigation
- Chapter 13: Streams and Flood Processes
- Chapter 14: Floods and Human Interactions
- Chapter 15: Waves Beaches, and Coastal Erosion
- Chapter 16: Hurricanes and Nor' easters
- Chapter 17: Wildfires
- Chapter 18: Asteroid and Comet Impacts
- Conversion Factors
- Glossary
- Index
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