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| Publisher | Butterworth-Heinemann; 1st edition |
| ISBN 13 | 9780128095287 |
| ISBN 10 | 0128095288 |
| Author | Himanshu Grover |
| Book Format | Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Book Description | Case Studies in Disaster Mitigation and Prevention: Disaster and Emergency Management: Case Studies in Adaptation and Innovation series presents cases illustrating efforts to reduce human and material losses associated with disasters. This |
| About the Author | Himanshu Grover is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban Design and Planning at the University of Washington. His research focuses primarily on the fields of disaster and emergency management (DEM), and community resilience. He has authored and co-authored more than 20 articles and book chapters in these fields, contributed to the development of graduate and undergraduate coursework, received state and federal funding, and presently co-leads a national level research center focusing of hazard mitigation and disaster prevention.Tanveer Islam is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Emergency Management and Public Administration at Jacksonville State University, where he teaches hazard mitigation, community resilience and GIS courses. He received a PhD in land use planning from Texas Tech University and did postdoctoral research at Texas A&M marine branch in Galveston and at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Environmental Cooperative Science Center. He is also a certified floodplain manager.Jean Slick is a Professor Emerita and Director for Center for Disaster and Community Resilience at Royal Roads University in Victoria, Canada, where she was previously the Director of the Disaster Management program. Previously she held a range of leadership positions in the Canadian Red Cross, including Director of Disaster Management and International Services for Western Canada. In 2004, she was posted to Indonesia for two years as the country representative for the Canadian Red Cross tsunami recovery program. |
| Publication Date | 2022-12-07 |
| Number of Pages | 250 pages |
Case Studies in Disaster Mitigation and Prevention: Disaster and Emergency Management: Case Studies in Adaptation and Innovation Series
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