Appropriate for any course with significant content in Environmental Policy or Environmental Risk in geography, sociology, economics, or psychology. This collection of seminal works in the field of environmental hazards integrates all the social science perspectives -- hazards (geography), disasters (sociology), and risk (economics, psychology) -- and features articles selected for their views on the acceptability of risks and hazards and the social choices made as to their management.
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This book is a compilation of several articles and chapters by the foremost hazards experts of today, and a few who are now deceased, but whose work remains a staple in the field. I would definetly recommend this book for use as a textbook or as a refernce for your collection.