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READINGS BOOK REVIEWS NATURA L HAZARDS AN D ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE Bill McGuire, Ian Mason, and Christopher Kilburn, 2002, 187 pp., $29.95, paperbound, Edward Arnold, ISBN 0-340-74220-8 logical (floods and debris flows), geological (land- atural hazards—such as storms, floods, and vol- canoes—simultaneously fascinate and terrorize slides and volcanoes), and extraterrestrial (asteroid/ comet impacts). (Somewhat surprisingly, seismicity N us on our home, the planet Earth. We are in awe of the power that such impacts can inflict upon the and earthquakes are not explicitly treated in the natural and man-made environment, yet we can still book.) The reader also learns that these natural haz- be entranced by the beauty of these phenomena, as ards are to be examined with respect to man-made cli- evidenced by seeing the convective symmetry of a ma- mate variability and its "increasing natural hazard jor hurricane from space. frequency and intensity." Such a focus appears to be an a priori assumption setting the foundation of the Natural Hazards and Environ- mental Change, by Bill McGuire, Ian book—that the impacts of global warming have al- ready led and will continue to lead to worse natural Mason, and Christopher Kilburn (all at the University College London), hazards. This underlying http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society American Meteorological Society

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American Meteorological Society
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Copyright © American Meteorological Society
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1520-0477
DOI
10.1175/1520-0477-84.10.1427
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BOOK REVIEWS NATURA L HAZARDS AN D ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE Bill McGuire, Ian Mason, and Christopher Kilburn, 2002, 187 pp., $29.95, paperbound, Edward Arnold, ISBN 0-340-74220-8 logical (floods and debris flows), geological (land- atural hazards—such as storms, floods, and vol- canoes—simultaneously fascinate and terrorize slides and volcanoes), and extraterrestrial (asteroid/ comet impacts). (Somewhat surprisingly, seismicity N us on our home, the planet Earth. We are in awe of the power that such impacts can inflict upon the and earthquakes are not explicitly treated in the natural and man-made environment, yet we can still book.) The reader also learns that these natural haz- be entranced by the beauty of these phenomena, as ards are to be examined with respect to man-made cli- evidenced by seeing the convective symmetry of a ma- mate variability and its "increasing natural hazard jor hurricane from space. frequency and intensity." Such a focus appears to be an a priori assumption setting the foundation of the Natural Hazards and Environ- mental Change, by Bill McGuire, Ian book—that the impacts of global warming have al- ready led and will continue to lead to worse natural Mason, and Christopher Kilburn (all at the University College London), hazards. This underlying

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Published: Oct 1, 2003

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