Disaster resilience : a national imperative /

One way to reduce the impacts of disasters on the nation and its communities is to invest in enhancing resilience. As defined in this report, resilience is the ability to prepare and plan for, absorb, recover from and more successfully adapt to adverse events. The NRC study committee was asked to (1...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Washington, DC : National Academies Press, 2012.
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