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Evaluating risks and mitigating losses: new opportunities and new challenges: proceedings of the first Annual Congress on Natural Disaster Loss Reduction, held by the Insurance Institute for Property Loss Reduction, June 17, 1994, Harborside Hyatt Hotel, Massachusetts.

Material type: TextTextPublication details: [Boston, Mass.] : The Institute, c1994Description: 71 p. : ill., ports ; 28 cmISBN:
  • 1885312024
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The worst and the best regarding natural disasters have yet to come -- Private-public partnerships for managing natural hazard risk --Public/private collaboration in development and implementation of risk reduction practices -- Understanding the wind peril -- Wind-rite TM: a new underwriting tool -- Unidentified flying objects: mitigating the impact of wind-borne debris -- Urban wildfire: not just a California problem -- The Southern California wildfires of 1993 -- The code enforcement grading systmem: what it means to insurers -- Seismic code adoption and enforcement in the Central United States -- Earthquakes in the Eastern United States: how vulnerable are we? -- Too many failures: the impact of the Northridge earthquake on seismically "sound" structures -- The legacy of Hurricane Andrew: what price life, safety and community?

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