Both the recurrent nature of disaster and the availability of technological, social, and organizational remedies make disaster relief an area where mitigation--policies and actions that are intended to reduce the impact of the next disaster--must be an integral part of a strategy of both recuperation and pre-disaster planning. While the consequences of disasters are not entirely preventable--earthquake-resistant buildings have fallen on their sides...
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1998/09/30
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2010/07/01
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Asistencia en casos de desastre
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natural disaster
Citation
Parker,Ronald S.; Kreimer,Alcira I..
Disaster assistance : Asistencia en casos de desastre (Spanish). OED precis ; no. 174 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/830991468779426328