Author Description

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. Edited By Gilbert F. White. Includes Bibliographies And Indexes.