Natural Hazards: Earth’s Processes as Hazards, Disasters, and Catastrophes, Books a la Carte Edition

By Edward A. Keller (Author)

Edition: 3rd

Language: English

Publisher: Routledge

Dimensions: 8.4 x 0.8 x 10.7 inches

ISBN-10: 321662644

ISBN-13: 978-0321662644

Publish Date: January 6, 2011

Print Length: 528 pages

Description: Natural Hazards uses 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 Third 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.

This program will provide an interactive and engaging learning experience for your students by:

• Providing a balanced approach to the study of natural hazards: Focus on globalization of our economy, information access, and human effects on our planet in a broader, more balanced approach to the study of natural hazards.
• Engaging your students with “Hazard City”: Students work through 11 different assignments by stepping into the role of a practicing geologist and analyzing potential disasters in the fictional town of Hazard City.