Browsing by Subject "Disasters"
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(2020-02-07)On August 8, 1899, hurricane San Ciriaco ravaged Puerto Rico, killing nearly 3,000 people in the floodwaters. The U.S. military’s occupational government reacted quickly in the aftermath and petitioned the federal government ...
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(2022-04-22)Natural disasters place tremendous stress on critical infrastructure systems by testing their service reliability under extreme condition. Prolonged service disruptions can pose serious threats to the physical, emotional, ...
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(Franco Angeli, 1987)This chapter explores the potential implications of natural disasters for stimulating social change in impacted social systems. More precisely, this chapter focuses on large scale, sudden onset disaster events and explores ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1986)This dissertation proposes a synthesized approach for explaining the consequences of technological and natural disasters. This approach contends that disasters can be conceptualized into components which are amenable to ...
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(Don & Ellie Knauss Veteran Resource & Support Center; Texas A&M University. Library, 2023)As disasters increase in severity and frequency it is imperative to ensure community plans and policies avoid contradictions by holistically evaluating their progress towards resiliency. The Deprogramming Housing 2016 plan ...
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(2009-06-02)This research adds greater dimensions to the understanding of the recovery-aid acquisition process for households in rural communities with a racially heterogeneous and contentious population. The study population is divided ...
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(2015-12-11)Despite greater preparation efforts and improved disaster detection methods, we lack the ability to completely control or eliminate the occurrence and consequences of disasters. In New York alone, following Hurricane Sandy, ...