Environmental Hazards
Subtitle: Assessing Risk and Reducing Disaster
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: January 31, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Unknown Binding
ISBN-13: 9780415428637
Subjects: Science / Environmental Science
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'.