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- Title
- Natural Hazards Observer, Volume VII, Number 3, January, 1983.
- File
- PB83193789.pdf
- Source
- National Science Foundation, Washington, DC., January 1983, 14 p.
- Abstract
- This edition discusses the information flow barrier that exists between emergency management practitioners and the research community with regard to natural hazards research. Results are presented of a study undertaken to develop a model for simulating the economic effects of earthquakes and earthquake prediction, and it is concluded that economic losses resulting from an earthquake are likely to be higher when measured from a regional perspective than when measured from a national one. A report recommending that the Federal Emergency Management Agency adopt a better monitoring program to ensure that local communities are actually enforcing flood plain management regulations is summarized. A plea for information on landslides, especially in the form of newspaper clippings and theses, is presented. Conferences, publications, and grants are listed.
- Keywords
- Emergency planning; Newsletters; Landslides; Disaster preparedness; Disasters; Disaster relief; Hazards; Flood plain zoning; Management; Warning systems; Flood insurance; Earthquakes