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Hurricane Andrew
This book explores how social, economic and political factors set the stage for Hurricane Andrew by influencing who was prepared, who was hit the hardest, and who was most likely …
Living Conditions, Disasters, and Development
Because most environmental problems result from human intervention in the ecosystem, ecological research in the social sciences is now joining research in the biological and …
Lessons from Hurricane Ike
If Hurricane Ike had made landfall just fifty miles down the Texas coast, the devastation and death caused by what was already one of the most destructive hurricanes in US history …
Planning for Community Resilience
How can we plan and design stronger communities? From New Orleans to Galveston to the Jersey Shore, communities struck by natural disasters struggle to recover long after the first …
Hurricane Andrew
This book explores how social, economic and political factors set the stage for Hurricane Andrew by influencing who was prepared, who was hit the hardest, and who was most likely …
Planning for Community Resilience
This timely handbook brings together the fields of planning, disaster response, and hazards management to provide a field-tested process on how to make communities …