Natural hazards, local, national, global / edited by Gilbert F. White.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Natural Hazards Research: Concepts, Methods, and Policy Implications / Gilbert F. White -- Tropical Cyclones: Coastal Bangladesh / M. Aminul Islam -- Human Response to the Hurricane / Duane D. Baumann and John H. Sims -- Attitudes Toward Hurricane Hazard on the Gulf Coast / Earl J. Baker and Donald J. Patton -- India and the Ganga Floodplain / R. Ramachandran and S.C. Thakur -- Flood Hazard at Shrewsbury, United Kingdom / Donald M. Harding and Dennis J. Parker -- Perception Research and Local Planning: Floods on the Rock River, Illinois / Norman T. Moline -- Flood Information, Expectation, and Protection on the Opotiki Floodplain, New Zealand / Neil J. Ericksen -- Coastal Erosion: The Meaning of a Natural Hazard in the Cultural and Ecological Context / Rowan A. Rowntree -- Windstorms: A Case Study of Wind Hazard for Boulder, Colorado / D.J. Miller, W.A.R. Brinkmann, and R.G. Barry -- Drought in Eastern Kenya: Nutritional Status and Farmer Activity / Benjamin Wisner and Philip M. Mbithi -- Response to Drought in Sukumaland, Tanzania / Thomas D. Hankins -- Northeast Tanzania: Comparative Observations Along a Moisture Gradient / Joop Heijnen and R.W. Kates -- Coping with Drought in a Preindustrial, Preliterate Farming Society / Herb Dupree and Wolf Roder -- Individual and Community Response to Rainfall Variability in Oaxaca, Mexico / Anne V. Kirkby -- Drought in South Australia / R.L. Heathcote -- Decisions by Florida Citrus Growers and Adjustments to Freeze Hazards / Robert M. Ward -- Frost Hazard to Tree Crops in the Wasatch Front: Perception and Adjustments / Richard H. Jackson -- Human Adjustment to Volcanic Hazard in Puna District, Hawaii / Brian J. Murton and Shinzo Shimabukuro -- Human Adjustment to the Earthquake Hazard of San Francisco, California / Edgar L. Jackson and Tapan Mukerjee -- Urban Snow Hazard: Marquette, Michigan / Fillmore C.F. Earney and Brian A. Knowles -- Avalanche Problems in Norway / Gunnar Ramsli -- Problems in the Use of a Standardized Questionnaire for Cross-cultural Research on Perception of Natural Hazards / Thomas F. Saarinen -- Decision Processes, Rationality, and Adjustment to Natural Hazards / Paul Slovic, Howard Kunreuther, and Gilbert F. White -- Economic Analysis of Natural Hazards: An Ordered Choice Approach / Howard Kunreuther -- The New Zealand Natural Hazard Insurance Scheme: Application to North America / Timothy O'Riordan -- Natural Hazards and Hazard Policy in Canada and the United States / Hazel Visvader and Ian Burton -- Natural Hazards: Report from Japan / T. Nakano -- Natural Hazards in the Territory of the USSR: Study, Control, and Warning / I.P. Gerasimov and T.V. Zvonkova -- Global Summary of Human Response to Natural Hazards: Tropical Cyclones / Anne U. White -- Global Summary of Human Response to Natural Hazards: Floods / Jacquelyn L. Beyer -- Global Summary of Human Response to Natural Hazards: Earthquakes / Thomas C. Nichols, Jr.