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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.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Natural disasters.
- Emergency management.
- Disaster relief.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 67 pages) : illustrations (some color)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1991.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "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
- Contents:
- A Safer Future
- Copyright
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Executive Summary
- Chapter 1-The U.S. Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction
- A NEW APPROACH TO DISASTER REDUCTION
- A FRAMEWORK FOR HAZARD REDUCTION
- Chapter 2-Hazard and Risk Assessments
- Chapter 3-Awareness and Education
- Chapter 4-Mitigation
- Chapter 5-Preparedness for Emergency Response, Recovery, and Reconstruction
- Chapter 6-Prediction and Warning
- PREDICTION
- WARNING
- Chapter 7-Learning from Disasters
- Chapter 8-U.S. Participation in the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction
- BROAD-BASED U.S. PARTICIPATION IN THE IDNDR
- DEVELOPING NATIONAL HAZARD MANAGEMENT CAPABILITIES
- A NORTH AMERICAN PROGRAM
- Chapter 9-Organization of the U.S. Decade
- Appendix-Hazard Reduction Checklist
- Suggested Readings.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 65-67).
- ISBN:
- 9786610203536
- 9781280203534
- 1280203536
- 9780309597753
- 0309597757
- 9780585143644
- 0585143641
- OCLC:
- 559118492
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