Natural Hazards: Earth’s Processes as Hazards, Disasters, and Catastrophes 4th Edition (eBook PDF) – Digital Ebook – Instant Delivery Download

Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0321939964
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0321939968
• Author:  Edward A. Keller, Duane E. DeVecchio

Natural Hazardsuses real-life examples of hazards and disasters to explore how and why they happen–and what we can do to limit their effects. The text’s up-to-date coverage of recent disasters brings a fresh perspective to the material.

The Fourth Edition provides a new active learning approach, a fully updated visual program and revised pedagogy tools that highlight hallmark concepts of the text. Students have access to an updated Hazard City , an online media resource which gives instructors meaningful, easy-to-assign, and easy-to-grade assignments in which students investigate virtual disasters in the fictional town of Hazard City.

Table contents:

1. Introduction to Natural Hazards
2. Internal Structure of Earth and Plate Tectonics
3. Earthquakes
4. Tsunamis
5. Volcanoes
6. Flooding
7. Mass Wasting
8. Subsidence and Soils
9. Atmospheric Processes and Severe Weather
10. Hurricanes and Extratropical Cyclones
11. Coastal Hazards
12. Climate and Climate Change
13. Wildfires
14. Impacts and Extinctions

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