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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.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1991.Description: 1 online resource (vii, 67 pages) : illustrations (some color)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585143641
  • 9780585143644
  • 1280203536
  • 9781280203534
  • 9786610203536
  • 6610203539
  • 0309597757
  • 9780309597753
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Safer future.DDC classification:
  • 363.34
LOC classification:
  • GB5014 .S23 1991eb
Online resources: Action note:
  • digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve
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
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"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).

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English.

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