Disasters in the United States : frequency, costs, and compensation / / Vera Brusentsev, Wayne Vroman.
This book focuses on three disaster-related categories: major disaster declarations, emergency declarations, and fire management assistance declarations. The authors utilize these official definitions to draw inferences about the frequency, geographic patterns, trends, and financial costs related to...
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Place / Publishing House: | Kalamazoo : : W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research,, 2017. |
Year of Publication: | 2016 2017 |
Language: | English |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (231 pages) :; illustrations, map |
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Setting the scene: a guide to this volume
- Reporting, frequency, and correlates of disasters
- Providing compensation to survivors of disasters
- Hurricanes
- Floods and their consequences
- Tornadoes
- Drought and other risks to agriculture
- Wildfires
- Geological and man-made disasters
- Disasters and compensation systems
- Figures
- References
- Authors
- Index
- About the institute.