Extreme natural hazards: Population growth, globalization and environmental change

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 364, Issue 1845, 2006, Pages 1875-1888

  Huppert, Herbert E ^a   Sparks, R Stephen J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Disasters; Extreme events; Geophysics; Globalization; Natural hazards; Risks

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748099503     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2006.1803     Document Type: Article

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