This text presents a unique geographic approach to the environment and environmental policy. Cutter and Renwick integrate physical, economic, social and political considerations into the examination of the major natural resource issues facing the world today. The dynamic interplay between these factors causes continuing changes in methods and ...
Hurricane Katrina was the costliest natural disaster in US history, killing thousands and displacing a million people. From the 2004 Tsunami to the recent Pakistan earthquake to fuel depot explosions in the UK, natural and human-induced disasters are ever more common, costly and dangerous. This is an essential collection from Susan Cutter, the ...
This volume celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Association of American Geographers. It recognizes the importance of technologies in the production of geographical knowledge. The original chapters presented here examine technologies that have affected geography as a discipline. Among the technologies discussed are cartography, the camera, ...
Appropriate for any course with significant content in Environmental Policy or Environmental Risk in geography, sociology, economics, or psychology. This collection of seminal works in the field of environmental hazards integrates all the social science perspectives -- hazards (geography), disasters (sociology), and risk (economics, psychology) - ...
Barrier islands, Flood plains, Earthquake faults: sometimes the environment poses threats to our well being, yet many of us continue to choose to live in risky or dangerous places. And on top of the knowns are the other, more hidden hazards related to environmental contamination that pose equally serious threats to our health and well being. But ...
Hurricane Katrina was the costliest natural disaster in US history, killing thousands and displacing a million people. From the 2004 Tsunami to the recent Pakistan earthquake to fuel depot explosions in the UK, natural and human-induced disasters are ever more common, costly and dangerous. This is an essential collection from Susan Cutter, the ...
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University of New Mexico
Date Published: 1991
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