Book Review: Assessment of Research on Natural Hazards

Abrahams M.J. Price J. Whitlock F.A. Williams G. 1976: The Brisbane floods, January 1974: Their impact on health. Medical Journal of Australia 2, 936–39.

Hewitt K. Burton I. 1971: The hazardousness of a place: A regional ecology of damaging events. Toronto: Department of Geography Research Paper no. 6, University of Toronto Press. (154 pp.)

Smith D.I. den Exter P. Dowling M.A. Jelliffe P.A. Munro R.G. Martin W.C. 1979: Flood damage in the Richmond river valley, New South Wales. Richmond River Interdepartmental Committee. Canberra: Australian National University Press. (307 pp.)

Western J.S. Milne G. 1979: Some social effects of a natural hazard: Darwin residents and cyclone Tracy. In Heathcote R.L. Thom B.G. , editors, Natural hazards in Australia, Canberra: Australian Academy of Science, chapter 36. (531 pp.)