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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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Book category Books in English Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning The environment Natural disasters

• Full title: Geohazards
• Subtitle: Natural and man-made
• Author: G. McCall, D. Laming, S. Scott
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 227
• EAN: 9780412439308
• ISBN: 0412439301
• ID: 02166301
• Publisher: Chapman and Hall
• Weight: 600 g
• Dimensions: 279 × 210 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 14. May 1992

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