Reduction And Predictability Of Natural Disasters - Hardcover

Rundle, John; Klein, William; Turcotte, Don

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0367320495 ISBN 13: 9780367320492

Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

Within the past five years, the international community has recognized that it may be possible, through programs of systematic study, to devise means to reduce and mitigate the occurrence of a variety of devastating natural hazards. Among these disasters are earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, floods, and landslides. The importance of these studies is underscored by the fact that within fifty years, more than a third of the world’s population will live in seismically and volcanically active zones. The International Council of Scientific Unions, together with UNESCO and the World Bank, have therefore endorsed the 1990s as the International Decade of Natural Disaster Reduction (IDNDR), and are planning a variety of programs to address problems related to the predictability and mitigation of these disasters, particularly in third-world countries. Parallel programs have begun in a number of U.S. agencies.

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John Rundle, Don Turcotte

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367320495
• ISBN 13: 9780367320492
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 324