The Reality of local community chemical disaster preparedness : three case studies.
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TextLanguage: ENG Series: Miscellaneous report (University of Delaware. Disaster Research Center) ; 28Publication details: 1981Description: iv, 61 pSubject: Constitutes a set of case studies describing the actual state of chemical and related disaster preparedness in three American communities. The emphasis on reality, what exists in everyday life, is an effort to give readers of this report a picture of what local officials actually have to cope with in different kinds of communities, for example, political considerations or the dominance of the chemical industry in the life of a particular area. The perspective is not a model of what should be done, but rather a depiction of the kinds of community contexts which prevail and within which disaster planners and emergency operational personnel have to act. As such, the case studies are not prototypes to be followed, but portrayals of the kinds of social settings in which all preparedness decisions and actions have to take place
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Constitutes a set of case studies describing the actual state of chemical and related disaster preparedness in three American communities. The emphasis on reality, what exists in everyday life, is an effort to give readers of this report a picture of what local officials actually have to cope with in different kinds of communities, for example, political considerations or the dominance of the chemical industry in the life of a particular area. The perspective is not a model of what should be done, but rather a depiction of the kinds of community contexts which prevail and within which disaster planners and emergency operational personnel have to act. As such, the case studies are not prototypes to be followed, but portrayals of the kinds of social settings in which all preparedness decisions and actions have to take place
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