Geohazards

Geohazards
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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 227
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ISBN-10 : 9789400903814
ISBN-13 : 9400903812
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Book Synopsis Geohazards by : G. McCall

Download or read book Geohazards written by G. McCall and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-08 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dorrik A. V. Stow Editor in Chief, Association of Geoscientists for International Development ( AGID) AGID is particularly pleased to see published this latest hurricanes, floods-that are wreaking havoc, destroying report in its Geosciences in International Development livelihood and lives in some corner of the globe. Series, as a significant contribution to the onset of the UN As geoscientists there are perhaps three concerns that Decade of National Disaster Reduction, and as a mark of should be uppermost in our minds as we join an inter AGID's growing concern over the potential and actual national effort to combat the adverse effects of natural effects of geohazards throughout the developing world. hazards. The first must be to improve our scientific The problem of geohazards is increasing, not because understanding of the nature and causes of such hazards and to work towards more reliable prediction of their the rate of earth processes is accelerating, nor because the occurrence and magnitude.


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