A Safer Future

A Safer Future

Reducing the Impacts of Natural Disasters

  • Publisher: National Academies Press
  • ISBN: 9780309045469
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780309597753
  • Place of publication:  United States
  • Year of digital publication: 1991
  • Month: January
  • Pages: 85
  • Language: English

Initial priorities for U.S. participation in the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, declared by the United Nations, are contained in this volume. It focuses on seven issues: hazard and risk assessment; awareness and education; mitigation; preparedness for emergency response; recovery and reconstruction; prediction and warning; learning from disasters; and U.S. participation internationally.

The committee presents its philosophy of calls for broad public and private participation to reduce the toll of disasters.

  • A Safer Future
  • Copyright
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Executive Summary
  • Chapter 1—The U.S. Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction
    • A NEW APPROACH TO DISASTER REDUCTION
    • A FRAMEWORK FOR HAZARD REDUCTION
  • Chapter 2—Hazard and Risk Assessments
  • Chapter 3—Awareness and Education
  • Chapter 4—Mitigation
  • Chapter 5—Preparedness for Emergency Response, Recovery, and Reconstruction
  • Chapter 6—Prediction and Warning
    • PREDICTION
    • WARNING
  • Chapter 7—Learning from Disasters
  • Chapter 8—U.S. Participation in the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction
    • BROAD-BASED U.S. PARTICIPATION IN THE IDNDR
    • DEVELOPING NATIONAL HAZARD MANAGEMENT CAPABILITIES
    • A NORTH AMERICAN PROGRAM
  • Chapter 9—Organization of the U.S. Decade
  • Appendix—Hazard Reduction Checklist
  • Suggested Readings

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