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When nature strikes : weather disasters and the law / Marsha L. Baum.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baum, Marsha L.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Natural disasters--Law and legislation--United States.
- Natural disasters.
- Disaster relief--Law and legislation--United States.
- Disaster relief.
- Disaster relief--Law and legislation.
- Natural disasters--Law and legislation.
- United States.
- Crime and weather.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 227 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2007.
- Contents:
- Weather forecasting and warning systems
- "Taming the weather" through science and technology
- Governmental liability for injury to individuals
- Civil liabilities for weather-related harm
- Crime and weather
- Weather and the justice system
- Future of weather and the law.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-213) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780275221294
- 0275221296
- OCLC:
- 123232252
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