I believe that scientists, architects, engineers, urban planners,
emergency managers, and health care specialists involved in
natural-disaster-risk management can benefit significantly by
reading this book. Planners, emergency managers, medical service
specialists, architects, engineers, and scientists have important
roles in reducing the risk from natural hazards in their community.
Urban planners plan the way groups of engineered and non-engineered
buildings will be combined to form streets and ultimately the urban
center. Medical service specialists and emergency managers organize
the human and material resources of the community for emergency
response and recovery. Architects design individual buildings,
focusing mainly on the building configuration, non-structural
elements, and occupant safety. Engineers, architects, and
scientists work together to ensure that new buildings will meet the
requirements of the local building and land use regulations and
withstand the physical effects of the hazards. --Walter W. Hays,
Deputy for Research Applications, United States Department of the
Interior
This second edition is the long-awaited and much anticipated
revision of the 1978 classic, The Environment as Hazard. The
superbly written book retains much of the original material,
attesting to its relevance decades later, as well as an updated
introduction and references. A newly-written chapter that
chronicles the merging synthesis of research in the hazards field
during the last 15 years provides a broad-based view from the
pioneers in the field. Just as the original volume charted the
course for hazards research in the 1980s, this revision takes us
well into the 21st century. The Environment as Hazard (2E) is yet
another triumph for the indefatigable team of Ian Burton, Bob
Kates, and Gilbert White. --Susan L. Cutter, Ph.D., Rutgers
University
No book has had a more profound and lasting impact on the community
of hazard scholars and practitioners than The Environment as
Hazard. This revision updates and extends the first edition in two
important ways--by considering recent trends in the incidence of
natural hazards and the means for coping with them, and by
examining new research on such issues as vulnerability, hunger, and
global environmental change. This welcome reappearance of a
benchmark work reaffirms the value of broad-ranging science in the
service of a more sustainable and equitable world. --Roger E.
Kasperson, Ph.D., Clark University
The reference section alone is worth the price--a who's who of
national hazards research. There is no hazards book that even
matches it. The perspective is so broad that it awakens my students
to complexities and inequities in natural hazards. The authors
bring the human component into natural hazards. I have yet to find
anything that's better. --Jerry Reynolds, Ph.D., University of
Central Arkansas, Associate Professor, Geography Dept., (Class:
Geography of Natural Hazards, undergrad)
Very readable....I can't think of anyone in my graduate seminar who
didn't enjoy and benefit from the book....Any graduate student in
geography interested in hazards and the environment who hasn't read
this book hasn't done [his or her] homework. --Kent B. Barnes,
Ph.D., Towson State University
The Environment as Hazard provides the overview and definitive
statement of extreme hazard perception and mitigation that is
comprehensible to the undergraduate student....It can be used as
the initial statement and organizing framework for a course on
hazards or, as in our case, it can provide a perfect complementary
statement as a major section in a more broad-based environmental
perception course. --Leo Zonn, Ph.D., East Carolina University
- ...The Environment as Hazard is essential reading in any course
on natural hazards. --Progress in Physical Geography, 4/11/1993
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