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Philip's Guide to Global Hazards discusses the many hazards that face us, with each hazard in its own section: earthquakes, volcanoes, weather (including hurricanes and tornadoes), snow and ice, floods, tidal waves and tsunamis, forest fires, drought and famine, epidemic disease, pollution and habitat loss, climate change (including El Nino and global warming), and cosmic disasters (such as meteorite strikes). Each section describes the phenomenon, with clear text plus high-quality artworks and photography. Case histories of some of the world's most terrifying and destructive cataclysms are given, focusing on both the human and the geophysical aspects of these tragedies. Disasters featured as case histories include the Pakistan Earthquake of 2005, the Sumatra-Andaman Tsunami of 2004, the West African Floods of 2003, the unprecedented four Category Five hurricanes of 2005, of which Hurricane Katrina was the most devastating, as well as other more recent events. There is much emphasis on the future and the very real threats to the lives and well-being of not just individuals and communities but humanity as a whole. Areas prone to particular hazards (such as earthquake zones, volcanic regions and flood zones) are illustrated and mapped. Philip's Guide to Global Hazards will be useful to geography and social studies students and to all readers interested in politics, current affairs and the environment. The study of natural hazards as an academic discipline in its own right is growing, with new departments and courses starting up regularly.
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Robert Kovach is Professor of Geophysics at Stanford University, California; his previous titles include Earth's Fury: An Introduction to Natural Hazards and Disasters. Bill McGuire is the Director of the Benfield UCL Hazard Research Centre, University College London (UCL).
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Nicely detailed encyclopedia of disasters but type too small.
13 Sep 2008
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This is a very well-written encyclopedia-style reference book describing most kinds of major disasters. The one glaring ommission only partially covered by other topics is FAMINE! One of the oldest calamities of human existence since the Neolithic revolution. Other than that, this reference book is quite thorough for a layman's guide to disasters. The only big problem is the format of this Firefly version is too tiny. Lots of pictures too small to really see much, and the small print too hard to read, especially for a reference book. I don't know if the previous Philips edition might be a little bigger. I will try it and see.
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