This Progress Report reviews the geographical literature concerning environmental hazards
and risk focussing particularly on areas that require and enhance interdisciplinary working …

What makes people and places vulnerable to natural hazards? What technologies and
methods are required to assess this vulnerability? These questions are used to illustrate the …

Geographic research on natural hazards has a long history, starting with a focus on physical
processes and moving forward with an increased recognition of the interactions between the …

Understanding the causes and effects of natural hazards has been facilitated greatly by
technologies such as geographic information systems (GIS), remote sensing, and satellite …

Despite greater scientific analysis of natural disasters, the global losses caused by natural
hazards º increasing. This paper outlines both the underlying reasons for this phenomenon …

The Handbook provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for hazard and
disaster research, policy making, and practice in an international and multi-disciplinary …

This entry details a spatial social science perspective for environmental hazards
vulnerability analysis. Vulnerability science is an interdisciplinary approach that integrates …

This book is a collection of essays, bringing together seventeen contributions from different
disciplines, with various, but complementary points of view, to discuss the directions and key …

The events of September 11th shocked the nation and painfully illustrated our vulnerability
to international terrorist attacks. Despite some of the most sophisticated models, monitoring …

As spatial variation is a fundamental aspect of natural hazards, extreme phenomena have
long been a fruitful subject for geographical study. Landslides, floods and volcanic …