Disaster Resilience: A National Imperative
University of South Carolina · Tri-County Health Department · +17 more institutions
Abstract
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2012). 2. H. Kunreuther and E. Michel-Kerjan, At War with the Weather (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011). 3. L. Clarke, Worst Cases: Terror and Catastrophe in the Popular Imagination (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2005). 4. N. N. Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (New York, NY: Random House, 2007). 5. E. Paté-Cornell, “On “Black Swans” and “Perfect Storms”: Risk Analysis and Management When Statistics Are Not Enough,” Risk Analysis 32…
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14Topics & keywords
- Homeland security
- Emergency management
- Resilience (materials science)
- Community resilience
- Black swan theory
- Politics
- Natural disaster
- National security
- Climate action