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Planning for Community Resilience: A Handbook for Reducing Vulnerability to Disasters
Jaimie Hicks Masterson
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Description for Planning for Community Resilience: A Handbook for Reducing Vulnerability to Disasters
Paperback. How can we plan and design stronger communities? This handbook brings together the fields of planning, disaster response, and hazards management to provide a field-tested process on how to make communities disaster-resilient. Num Pages: 304 pages, 8 photographs & 30 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFC; RNR; RPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 177 x 14. Weight in Grams: 458.
This timely handbook brings together the fields of planning, disaster response, and hazards management to provide a field-tested process on how to make communities disaster-resilient. How can we plan and design stronger communities? Communities struck by natural disasters struggle to recover long after the first responders have left. Globally, the average annual number of natural disasters has more than doubled since 1980. These catastrophes are increasing in number as well as in magnitude, causing greater damage as we experience rising sea levels and other effects of climate change. Communities can reduce their vulnerability to disaster by becoming more resilient, to ... Read more
This timely handbook brings together the fields of planning, disaster response, and hazards management to provide a field-tested process on how to make communities disaster-resilient. How can we plan and design stronger communities? Communities struck by natural disasters struggle to recover long after the first responders have left. Globally, the average annual number of natural disasters has more than doubled since 1980. These catastrophes are increasing in number as well as in magnitude, causing greater damage as we experience rising sea levels and other effects of climate change. Communities can reduce their vulnerability to disaster by becoming more resilient, to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Island Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
455g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Washington, United States
ISBN
9781610915854
SKU
V9781610915854
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Jaimie Hicks Masterson
Jaimie Hicks Masterson is the Program Coordinator of Texas Target Cities at Texas A&M University. Walter Gillis Peacock, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning and Director of the Hazard Reduction & Recovery Center at Texas A&M University. Shannon S. Van Zandt, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban ... Read more
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