Community Disaster Recovery and Resiliency : Exploring Global Opportunities and Challenges.

With contributions and editorial guidance from experts throughout the field, this book examines diverse community examples that form a framework for comparing best practices, illustrating how communities can reduce their vulnerability to disasters and recover more quickly. It identifies opportunitie...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Miller, DeMond S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : CRC Press, 2010.
Temas:
Disaster relief > Citizen participation.
Disaster relief > Economic aspects.
Emergency management.
Secours aux victimes de catastrophes > Participation des citoyens.
Secours aux victimes de catastrophes > Aspect économique.
Disaster relief > Citizen participation
Disaster relief > Economic aspects
Emergency management
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:With contributions and editorial guidance from experts throughout the field, this book examines diverse community examples that form a framework for comparing best practices, illustrating how communities can reduce their vulnerability to disasters and recover more quickly. It identifies opportunities and challenges communities must face on the road to recovery, providing an interdisciplinary, social scientific perspective. The book emphasizes non-traditional approaches to disaster recovery and rebuilding communities and compares the rebuilding of community between different nations at differen.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (628 pages)
ISBN:9781420088236
1420088238
1282902466
9781282902466

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