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Assessing Community Impacts of Natural Disasters
[Assessing Community Impacts of Natural Disasters]
Research on the community impacts of natural disasters has yielded a wide variety of findings, but no coherent model of the process by which hazard agent characteristics produce physical and social impacts. This article summarizes the principal features of this
process and describes the ways in which hazard mitigation and emergency preparedness practices can limit the physical impacts and the ways in which community recovery resources and extra-community assistance can reduce social impacts.
American Society of Civil Engineers
Language: Inglés
Format: PDF