Handbook of disaster policies and institutions : improving emergency management and climate change adaptation / John Handmer and Stephen Dovers.

Disasters both natural and human-induced are leading to spiralling costs in terms of human lives, lost livelihoods and damaged assets and businesses. Yet these consequences and the financial and human crises that follow catastrophes can often be traced to policies unsuited to the emerging scales of...

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Main Author: Handmer, John W.
Other Authors: Dovers, Stephen
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge/Earthscan, 2013.
Edition:Second edition.
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