Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428936106
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Flood map modernization program strategy shows promise, but challenges remain : report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity, Committee on Financial Services, House of Representatives.
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428936106
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Flood Map Modernization
Author: United States. General Accounting OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Digital mapping
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Flood Map Modernization and the Future of the National Flood Insurance Program
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Financial Services. Subcommittee on Housing and Community OpportunityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is the premier public resource on scientific and technological developments that impact global security. Founded by Manhattan Project Scientists, the Bulletin's iconic "Doomsday Clock" stimulates solutions for a safer world.
Our Common Future
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780195531916
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Setting Course
Author: Craig SchultzOversight Plans for All House Committees, with Accompanying Recommendations
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government ReformPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislative oversight
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Disaster Resilience
Author: National AcademiesPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309261503
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
No person or place is immune from disasters or disaster-related losses. Infectious disease outbreaks, acts of terrorism, social unrest, or financial disasters in addition to natural hazards can all lead to large-scale consequences for the nation and its communities. Communities and the nation thus face difficult fiscal, social, cultural, and environmental choices about the best ways to ensure basic security and quality of life against hazards, deliberate attacks, and disasters. Beyond the unquantifiable costs of injury and loss of life from disasters, statistics for 2011 alone indicate economic damages from natural disasters in the United States exceeded $55 billion, with 14 events costing more than a billion dollars in damages each. One way to reduce the impacts of disasters on the nation and its communities is to invest in enhancing resilience-the ability to prepare and plan for, absorb, recover from and more successfully adapt to adverse events. Disaster Resilience: A National Imperative addresses the broad issue of increasing the nation's resilience to disasters. This book defines "national resilience", describes the state of knowledge about resilience to hazards and disasters, and frames the main issues related to increasing resilience in the United States. It also provide goals, baseline conditions, or performance metrics for national resilience and outlines additional information, data, gaps, and/or obstacles that need to be addressed to increase the nation's resilience to disasters. Additionally, the book's authoring committee makes recommendations about the necessary approaches to elevate national resilience to disasters in the United States. Enhanced resilience allows better anticipation of disasters and better planning to reduce disaster losses-rather than waiting for an event to occur and paying for it afterward. Disaster Resilience confronts the topic of how to increase the nation's resilience to disasters through a vision of the characteristics of a resilient nation in the year 2030. Increasing disaster resilience is an imperative that requires the collective will of the nation and its communities. Although disasters will continue to occur, actions that move the nation from reactive approaches to disasters to a proactive stance where communities actively engage in enhancing resilience will reduce many of the broad societal and economic burdens that disasters can cause.
Activities of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional law
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The Defense Production Act of 1950, as Amended
Author: United StatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Industrial priorities
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description