Future disaster trends : implications for programs and policies.
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TextSeries: Preliminary paper ; 256Publication details: [Newark, Del.] : Unviversity of Delaware, 1997Description: 49 pDDC classification: - 363.348 21
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"An earlier version of this paper was written to provide background material for the oral comments made at the session on Inter-relationships Between Natural and Technological Disasters held at the World Conference on Natural Disaster Reduction in Yokohama, Japan on May 25, 1994"
Bibliography: p. 42-49
As the world continues to industrialize and urbanize, it is continually creating conditions for more and worse disasters in the future that, among other things, will contribute further to environmental degradation and hinder developmental programs. The industrialization and urbanization processes, however positive in effects along some lines, will both increase the number of potential disaster agents and enlarge the vulnerabilities of communities and populations at risk. However, policies can be established and steps can be taken that will reduce and weaken some of the negative effects of the probable catastrophic disasters of the future. If the right policies and measures are put in place, the future will not be the past revisited nor will it be only the present repeated
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