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A Safer future : reducing the impacts of natural disasters

Title
  1. 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.
Published by
  1. Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1991.

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Additional authors
  1. National Research Council (U.S.) U.S. National Committee for the Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction.
Description
  1. vii, 67 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 28 cm
Alternative title
  1. Reducing the impacts of natural disasters
Subject
  1. Natural disasters
  2. Emergency management
  3. Disaster relief
  4. natural disasters
  5. Disaster relief
  6. Emergency management
  7. Natural disasters
  8. Catastrophes naturelles
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 65-67).