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Sheltering the Urban Poor: Lessons and Strategies of the Mexico City and San Salvador Earthquakes.
A large urban earthquake can create sudden, large demands for shelter for the urban poor. Two recent earthquakes - one in Mexico City and the other in San Salvador illustrate the problems that urban planners may face in ...
Regorganization of a Civil Defense System
This paper sets out a step-by-step procedure under which a typical civil defense system might be reorganized and decentralized to form a more community-based emergency response organization. This procedure is based on an ...
Alternative Strategies for Meeting Disaster Preparedness Needs.
This paper has been written to illustrate how alternative preparedness and mitigation strategies can be examined from the perspective of disaster type.