✦ LIBER ✦
Population evacuation in volcanic eruptions, floods, and nuclear power plant accidents: Some elementary comparisons
✍ Scribed by Ronald W. Perry
- Book ID
- 102678237
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1983
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 835 KB
- Volume
- 11
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0090-4392
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✦ Synopsis
On the other hand, it has been demonstrated that one can focus upon generic functions in disasters-evacuation, search and rescue, shelter logistics, etc.-and develop a strategy for making comparisons among different disaster agents based upon the ways in which these functions are conducted. In adopting this approach, research emphasis shifts away from concern with cataloguing ways in which disaster agents are alike or different, and focuses upon assessing ways in which function-related human behaviors compare between nuclear and nonnuclear disasters. This emphasis upon analyzing "functions"