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Reduction And Predictability Of Natural Disasters

Reduction And Predictability Of Natural Disasters

Rundle, John
Klein, William
Turcotte, Don

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Series: Proceedings Volume XXV Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sci, Book 25

General Political ScienceGeneral SociologyGeology

ISBN10: 0201870495
ISBN13: 9780201870497
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 1 1996
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.67 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
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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