Duty and disaster : holding local governments liable for permitting uses in high-hazard areas.

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: [Washington, DC : EDA], 2000Description: 1 v. (variously paged) : ill. (some col.)Subject(s):

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363.349220997 21

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Australian Emergency Management Library	BOOK	363.34922 DUT (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		011656470

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North Carolina's experience with Hurricane Floyd vividly illustrates the role that development in high-hazard areas plays in turning natural hazards into natural disasters. North Carolina officials estimate that most of the 9,000 homes that suffered major storm damage were built in floodways or 100-year floodplains. In addition, the flood swept through twenty-four municipal sewage treatments plants, fifty hog waste lagoons,and three junkyards that were sited in floodplains.

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