Social accounting for disaster preparedness and recovery planning.

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Technical Report (National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research) ; NCEER-93-0002Publication details: Buffalo, N.Y. : National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1993Description: 1 v. (various pagings) : illDDC classification:

363.347 21

Subject: This report describes the first two phases of a project to develop a Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) modeling system as a tool for assessing the economic damage arising from natural disasters and for helping to devise recovery strategies. The resulting system may be used to design proactive strategies for regions known to be vulnerable to specific natural disasters (such as earthquakes and hurricanes), as well as to assess damage and aid recovery in localities which have suffered an unanticipated disaster

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Australian Emergency Management Library	BOOK	F363.347 SOC (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		009187213

"February 22, 1993"

"NCEER project numbers 89-4010, 90-4006 and 92-6001. NSF master contract number BCS 90-25010 and NYSSTF grant number NEC-91029"

Includes bibliographical references

This report describes the first two phases of a project to develop a Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) modeling system as a tool for assessing the economic damage arising from natural disasters and for helping to devise recovery strategies. The resulting system may be used to design proactive strategies for regions known to be vulnerable to specific natural disasters (such as earthquakes and hurricanes), as well as to assess damage and aid recovery in localities which have suffered an unanticipated disaster

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