Safer Future

Reducing the Impacts of Natural Disasters

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• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Year: 1991
• Edition: 0
• eBook ISBN:
  9780309597753
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Index: Social Sciences

Initial priorities for U.S. participation in the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, declared by the United Nations, are contained in this volume. It focuses on seven issues: hazard and risk assessment; awareness and education; mitigation; preparedness for emergency response; recovery and reconstruction; prediction and warning; learning from disasters; and U.S. participation internationally.The committee presents its philosophy of calls for broad public and private participation to reduce the toll of disasters.

Table of contents

• A Safer Future
• Copyright
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• Executive Summary
• Chapter 1—The U.S. Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction
• Chapter 2—Hazard and Risk Assessments
• Chapter 3—Awareness and Education
• Chapter 4—Mitigation
• Chapter 5—Preparedness for Emergency Response, Recovery, and Reconstruction
• Chapter 6—Prediction and Warning
• Chapter 7—Learning from Disasters
• Chapter 8—U.S. Participation in the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction
• Chapter 9—Organization of the U.S. Decade
• Appendix—Hazard Reduction Checklist
• Suggested Readings