TY - GEN AU - Hyndman, Donald AU - Hyndman, David. TI - Natural hazards & disasters SN - 978133598640 AV - GB5014 .H95 2014 PY - 2014/// CY - Australia : PB - Brooks/Cole, Cengage Learning KW - Natural disasters KW - Textbooks KW - Disasters KW - United States KW - Environmental risk assessment KW - Emergency management N1 - Includes index; Natural hazards and disasters -- Plate tectonics and physical hazards -- Earthquakes and their causes -- Earthquake prediction and mitigation -- Tsunami -- Volcanoes: tectonic environments and eruptions -- Volcanoes: hazards and mitigation -- Landslides and other downslope movements -- Sinkholes, land subsidence, and swelling soils -- Climate change and weather related to hazards -- Streams and flood processes -- Floods and human interactions -- Waves, beaches, and coastal erosion -- Hurricanes and nor’easters -- Thunderstorms and tornadoes -- Wildfires -- Impact of asteroids and comets -- The future: where do we go from here? ER -