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A Safer future : reducing the impacts of natural disasters

Title
A Safer future : reducing the impacts of natural disasters / U.S. National Committee for the Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources, National Research Council.
Publication
Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1991.

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Additional Authors
National Research Council (U.S.) U.S. National Committee for the Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction.
Description
vii, 67 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 28 cm
Alternative Title
Reducing the impacts of natural disasters
Subject
  • Natural disasters
  • Emergency management
  • Disaster relief
  • natural disasters
  • Disaster relief
  • Emergency management
  • Natural disasters
  • Catastrophes naturelles
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 65-67).
Contents
The U.S. decade for natural disaster reduction -- Hazard and risk assessment -- Awareness and education -- Mitigation -- Preparedness for emergency response, recovery, and reconstruction -- Prediction and warning -- Learning from disasters -- U.S. participation in the international decade for natural disaster reduction -- Organization of the U.S. decade.
ISBN
  • 0585143641
  • 9780585143644
  • 0309045460
  • 9780309045469
LCCN
91062278
OCLC
  • ocm28847109
  • 28847109
  • SCSB-1965515
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library