Research Catalog

Title

Tools and methods for estimating populations at risk from natural disasters and complex humanitarian crises / Committee on the Effective Use of Data, Methodologies, and Technologies to Estimate Subnational Populations at Risk ; Board on Earth Sciences and Resources ; Division on Earth and Life Studies ; Committee on Population ; Division of Behavioral and Social Science and Education ; National Research Council.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2007], ©2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on the Effective Use of Data, Methodologies, and Technologies to Estimate Subnational Populations at Risk.
• National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Population.

Description

xvi, 247 pages : illustrations, maps (some color); 23 cm

Subject

• Population forecasting
• Subnational governments > Population
• Disasters
• Humanitarian assistance

Note

• Chiefly papers presented at a workshop organized by the Committee on the Effective Use of Data, Methodologies, and Technologies to Estimate Subnational Populations at Risk, held in March 2006 in Washington, D.C.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

1. Populations at risk : local to global concerns -- 2. Current status of at-risk subnational population estimation -- 3. Data dissonance in disasters -- 4. The operational environment and institutional impediments -- 5. Population data and crisis response in Mali, Mozambique, and Haiti -- 6. Recommendations -- App. A. Biographical sketches of committee members and staff -- App. B. Acronyms and abbreviations -- App. C. Glossary -- App. D. Workshop and meeting agendas and attendees -- App. E. Technical papers.

ISBN

• 0309103541
• 9780309103541

OCLC

• ocn145554661
• 145554661
• SCSB-5348100

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries