Environmental Hazards
Subtitle: Assessing Risk and Reducing Disaster (Routledge Physical Environment Series)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: November 30, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780415224635
First sentence: In the modern world, there is an increasing paradox between the outstanding achievements in science and medicine, which make life safer and healthier, and the continuing death and destruction associated with so-called 'natural hazards'.