Required Text Books (Books should be
available at Labyrinth Books at 536 W 112th Street between
Broadway and Amsterdam Ave.). Students are expected to have read the following
two books cover to cover during the course. Special sections of these
2 books should be more intensively studied in conjunction with individual
lectures as noted below.
- Blaikie, P., T. Cannon, I. Davis & B. Wisner: "At Risk:
Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability, and Disasters".
New York: Routledge; 1994. pp. 298.
- Patrick L. Abbott: "Natural Disasters". 2nd Edition. WCB/McGraw-Hill,
1999. pp. 397.
Additional Optional Texts (Not Required but Recommended; check
out books from combined CU/Barnard Libraries; this list is in alphabetic
order, not sequenced by priority):
- Burby, Raymond J., Cooperating with Nature. Joseph Henry Press,
Washington, D.C.; 1998 pp.356.
- Burton, Ian; Kates. Robert W., and White, Gilbert P.,
The Environment as Hazard. 2nd revised ed. New York:
The Guilford Press: 1993. 290 pp.
- Coch, Nicholas K., Geohazards - Natural and Human. Prentice Hall,
Englewood Cliffs, NJ.: 1995 pp. 1- 481.
- Cohen, Joel E., How Many People Can the Earth Support? W.W. Norton
and Co., 1995, pp.
- Godshalk, David R.,Timothy Beatley, Philip Berke, David J. Brower,
and Edward J. Kaiser, Charles. C. Bohl, and R. Mathew Goebel.
Natural Hazard Mitigation - Recasting Disaster Policy and Mitigation.
Washington DC: Island Press. 1999. 575 pp.
- Kunreuther, Howard; Roth, Richards, Paying the Price.
Joseph Henry Press, Washington, D.C. 1998. 300pp.
- Mileti, Dennis S.: "Disasters by Design - A Reassessment of Natural
Hazards in the United States". Washington DC, Joseph Henry
Press; 1999. pp. 351.
- Perrow, Charles. Normal Accidents. Living with High-Risk Technologies.
Basic Books (US), 1984. pp. 386.
- Keith Smith: "Environmental Hazards: Assessing Risk and Reducing
Disaster" 2nd edition, New York. Routledge; 1996; pp. 389
Extended List of Text Resources:
- Abbott, Patrick L. Natural Disasters. Duduque, Iowa: Wm.C. Brown-McGraw
Hill, 2nd Ed., 1998; 397 pp. (paper). Note: has selected website
listings at end of each chapter !!!
- Alexander, David. Natural Disasters. New York, New
York: Chapman & Hall, Inc. 1993. pp. 632.
- Berke, Philip R., and Beatley. Planning For Earthquakes:
Risks, Politics, and Policy. 1992. The Johns Hopkins University
Press. Baltimore, MD. 210pp.
- Blaikie, Piers and others. At Risk: Natural Hazards, People's
Vulnerability, and Disasters. New
- York: Routledge; 1994. 298 pp.
- Bourrian, Janine. Understanding Catastrophe: It's Impact
on Life on Earth. New York: Cambridge University Press;
1992. 214 pp.
- Burby, Raymond J., Cooperating With Nature. Joseph Henry Press,
Washington, D.C.; 1998 pp.356.
- Burton, Ian; Kates. Robert W., and White, Gilbert P. The
Environment as Hazard. 2nd revised ed. New York: The
Guilford Press: 1993. 290 pp.
- Chapman, David. Natural Hazards. Melbourne, Australia: Oxford Univ.
Press; 1994. 174 pp.
- Coch, Nicholas K. Geohazards - Natural and Human. Prentice Hall, Englewood
Cliffs, NJ.: 1995 pp. 1- 481. about $ 60.
- Ebert, Charles H. V. Disasters: Violence of Nature and
Threats by Man. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendal-Hunt Publishing Co.;
1997. 274 pp.
- FEMA, Multihazard - Identification and Risk Assessment. The Cornerstone
of the National Mitigation Strategy. FEMA, Washington DC.
1997. pp. 369 plus Append
- Godshalk, David R., Timothy Beatley, Philip Berke, David J. Brower,
and Edward J. Kaiser, Charles. C. Bohl, and R. Mathew Goebel.
Natural Hazard Mitigation - Recasting Disaster Policy and Mitigation.
Washington DC: Island Press. 1999. 575 pp.
- Hewitt, Kenneth. Regions of Risk: A Geographical Introduction
to Disasters. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1997. 311
pp.
- Keller, Edward A. Environmental Geology. 7th ed.
Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, Inc.; 1996. 560
pp.
- Kovach, Robert L. Earth's Fury: An Introduction to Natural
Hazards and Disasters. Englewood
- Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall; 1995. 224 pp.
- Kunreuther, Howard; Roth, Richards, Paying the Price.
Joseph Henry Press, Washington, D.C. 1998. 300pp.
- McCall, G.J. H., Laming, D. J. C., Scott, S.C., Geo Hazards
- Natural and Man Made; 1992 Chapman and Hall, 1992.
pp. 227. (only solid earth, not atmosphere or floods.)
- Merriman, P.A. and Browitt, C.W. A. Natural Disasters: Protecting
Vulnerable Communities.
- London: Thomas Telford; 1993. 591 pp.
- Mileti, Dennis S. (Editor); Disasters by Design - A Reassessment of
Natural Hazards in the United States. Washington DC, Joseph Henry
Press; 1999. pp. 351.
- Murck, Barbara W.; Skinner, Brian J., and Porter, Stephen C.
Environmental Geology. New York: John Wiley & Sons;
1996. 553 pp.
- Perrow, Charles. Normal Accidents. Living with High-Risk Technologies.
Basic Books (US), 1984. pp. 386.
- Qurantelli, E.L. (Editor) What is a disaster? Perspectives on a question.
Routledge 5/1998. 328 pages. Paper: ISBN 0415178991. $29.95
- Smith, Keith. Environmental Hazards: Assessing Risk and Reducing
Disaster. 2nd ed. New York, NY: Routledge; 1996. 414pp.
(Routledge Physics) Environment Series.
- Tobin, Graham A. and Montz, Burrell E. Natural Hazards: Explanation
and Integration. New York: Guilford Press; 1997. 388pp.
- Whittow, John. Disasters: The Anatomy of Environmental Hazards.
London: Alan Lane-Penguin
- Books; 1980. 411pp.
- Yanev, Peter. Peace of Mind in Earthquake Country, Chronicle
Books, San Francisco. 1974. pp. 304.
- Anonymous:
- The Economic Consequences of a Catastrophic Earthquake. National
Academy Press, Washington D. C. 1992. 178pp.
- FEMA, Multihazard - Identification and Risk Assessment. The Cornerstone
of the National Mitigation Strategy. FEMA, Washington DC.
1997. pp. 369 plus Append
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