Unraveling Environmental Disasters

Named a 2014 Outstanding Academic Title by the American Library Association's Choice publication

Daniel A. Vallero (Edited by), Trevor Letcher (Edited by)

9780123970268, Elsevier Science

Hardback, published 26 November 2012

530 pages, 70 illustrations (70 in full color)
24.6 x 18.7 x 3.1 cm, 1.29 kg

"This important, clearly written, well-organized book addresses a confluence of significant global issues and brings them into focus. Vallero…and Letcher…examine engineering failures within the context of generating environmental disasters…The book addresses related issues of sustainability, anthropogenic global warming, pesticide use and its impact on the food chain, vinyl chloride production, etc…Summing Up: Essential." --CHOICE Reviews Online, January 2014

Unraveling Environmental Disasters provides scientific explanations of the most threatening current and future environmental disasters, including an analysis of ways that the disaster could have been prevented and how the risk of similar disasters can be minimized in the future.

1. Failures 2. Science 3. Explosions 4. Plumes 5. Leaks 6. Spills 7. Fires 8. Climate 9. Nature 10. Minerals 11. Recalcitrance 12. Radiation 13. Invasions 14. Products 15. Unsustainability 16. Society 17. Future Glossary of Terms

Subject Areas: Natural disasters [RNR], Management & management techniques [KJM], Social impact of disasters [JFFC]