Primer on natural hazard management in integrated regional development planning.

By:

Organization of American States Executive Secretariat for Economic and Social Affairs

Contributor(s):

United States. Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: ENG Publication details: 1991Description: xvii, ca 425p., 1 appendix, figs tabs and refs throughoutISBN:

0827030088

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Australian Emergency Management Library	BOOK	363.3487 PRI (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		005275640

Part 1: Integrated development planning and natural hazards. Incorporating natural hazard management into the development planning process; Natural hazard risk reduction in project formulation and evaluation; Resource evaluation and the role of ecosystems in mitigating natural hazards. Part 2: Tools and techniques for natural hazard assessment. Remote sensing in natural hazard assessments; Geographic information systems in natural hazard managment; Multiple hazard mapping; Critical facilities mapping. Part 3: Assessment of specific natural hazards. Floodplain definition and flood hazard assessment; Desertification hazard assessment; Lanslide hazard assessement; Geologic hazards; Hurricane hazards

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