A Safer future: reducing the impacts of natural disasters
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. National Academy Press 1991
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Item Description:"Initial priorities for U.S. participation in the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, declared by the United Nations, are contained in this volume. It focuses on seven issues: hazard and risk assessment; awareness and education; mitigation; preparedness for emergency response; recovery and reconstruction; prediction and warning; learning from disasters; and U.S. participation internationally. The committee presents its philosophy of calls for broad public and private participation to reduce the toll of disasters."--Website description
Includes bibliographical references (pages 65-67)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (vii, 67 pages)
ISBN:0309045460
0585143641
9780309045469
9780585143644

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