Human Element to Disasters & Their Impact: Issues Related to Response & Recovery

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Year: 2001
Pages: 80
Binding Paperback

Product Code: 0756726344

Description

David Etkin (ed.). Contains 5 articles from The Canadian Natural Hazards Assess. Project, a community of scientists, scholars & practitioners in the natural hazards & disasters field in Canada. Identifies issues surrounding the response & recovery phase of natural disasters or emergencies, & attempt to make the reader more aware of the human element to disasters & their impact. The articles include: lessons learned or lessons forgotten, the Canadian disaster experience; psychosocial aspects of disaster relief & recovery; integrating communities into disaster planning & policy making; risk assess. & mgmt. in local gov’t. emergency planning; disaster response systems in Canada; & the need for educ. (addresses the educ. of emergency planners & responders across Canada).

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