Hazards Analysis: Reducing the Impact of Disasters, Second Edition, P HB..

Taylor & Francis

The impacts of natural and man-made disasters have increased exponentially over the past few decades. Moreover, with our global interconnectedness and the growing scale of disasters, today's catastrophic disasters can have regional, national, and even global economic consequences.\n\nFollowing in the tradition of the successful first edition, Hazards Analysis: Reducing the Impact of Disasters, Second Edition provides a structure and process for understanding the nature of natural and human-caused disasters. Stressing the role of hazard risk management for public, private, and nonprofit organizations, the author and expert contributors cover problem solving, risk analysis, and risk communications to ensure readers are in a position to identify key problems associated with hazards and the risks that they present.\n\nThe book details a systematic process of hazards identification, vulnerability determination, and consequence assessment for the natural, built, and human environment. Usin.