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Declaring Disaster : Buffalo's Blizzard of '77 and the Creation of FEMA /

"Buffalo's 1977 blizzard was the first snowstorm to be declared a disaster in US history and, in "Declaring Disaster," Kneeland offers a compelling examination of whether the 1977 storm was an anomaly or the inevitable outcome of years of city planning. From the local to the stat...

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Autor principal: Kneeland, Timothy W., 1962- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Syracuse : Syracuse University Press, 2021.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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