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Protecting seniors against environmental disasters : from hazards and vulnerability to prevention and resilience / Michael R Greenberg.
- Title
- Protecting seniors against environmental disasters : from hazards and vulnerability to prevention and resilience / Michael R Greenberg.
- Author
- Greenberg, Michael R.
- Publication
- Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2014.
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- Description
- xvi, 210 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "This book connects the dots between two powerful trends in the US: the rapid growth of the 65+ year old population and the marked increase in natural and human-caused environmental disasters. Inevitably, these two trends lead to more environmental disasters disproportionately impacting seniors, unless coordinated planning, regulations, and practice focus on identifying best risk management practices and implementing them. Built on a risk analysis framework, this book uses literature, interviews and case studies to find the best lessons learned about how to prevent seniors' exposure to low probability but high consequence events and how to protect the 65+ year old population when these events do occur"--
- Series Statement
- Earthscan risk in society series
- Uniform Title
- Earthscan risk in society series.
- Subject
- Older people > Services for > United States
- Emergency management > United States
- Environmental disasters > United States
- Natural disasters > United States
- Older disaster victims > United States
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Green Business
- Emergency management
- Environmental disasters
- Natural disasters
- Older disaster victims
- Older people > Services for
- Disasters
- Risk Assessment
- Aged
- Disaster Victims
- Aged, 80 and over
- United States
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1 Introduction to the Baby-Boom Generation and Risk Analysis 1 -- 2 The Baby-Boom Imperative 9 -- 3 Risk Assessment: Experiences of Seniors in Low-Probability, High-Consequence Environmental Hazard Events 25 -- 4 Risk Management: Local, State, and the Federal Government 50 -- 5 Risk Management: Not-for-Profit and For-Profit Organizations 72 -- 6 Risk Management: Seniors. Assistants, Family, and Friends 99 -- 7 New Jersey's Three Recent Tropical Storms and Hurricanes: Experiences and Lessons Learned 122 -- 8 Recommendations: Increasing Mitigation and Resilience and Reducing Vulnerability 167.
- ISBN
- 9780415842013 (hardback)
- 0415842018 (hardback)
- 9780203763346 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2014002665
- OCLC
- 880929460
- SCSB-12405175
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library