Disasters : your right to survive.

Contributor(s):

Silverstein, Martin Elliot

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Washington, D.C.; Sydney: Brassey's, 1992Description: xvi, 207p.: 1 mapISBN:

008037431X

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

363.3480973

Subject: This book is a manual on how to stay alive, individually and collectively, in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It is the first book that defines disaster as a coherent phenomenon and provides guidance for policymakers. It is a comprehensive guide to the causes of natural and man-made disasters that also contains both a vigorous critique of current disaster prevention and relief capabilities, as well as practical recommendations for future efforts.

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Bibliography: p.193-200

Includes index

This book is a manual on how to stay alive, individually and collectively, in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. It is the first book that defines disaster as a coherent phenomenon and provides guidance for policymakers. It is a comprehensive guide to the causes of natural and man-made disasters that also contains both a vigorous critique of current disaster prevention and relief capabilities, as well as practical recommendations for future efforts.

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