TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brusentsev,Vera
AU  - Vroman,Wayne
ED  - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Disasters in the United States : : Frequency, Costs, and Compensation / 
SN  - 9780880995245
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Kalamazoo
PB  - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
KW  - Natural disasters
KW  - Law and legislation
KW  - fast
KW  - Disaster relief
KW  - Compensation management
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Environmental Economics
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - General
KW  - Infrastructure
KW  - Catastrophes
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Coût
KW  - Salaires
KW  - Gestion
KW  - Disasters
KW  - United States
KW  - Costs
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Setting the scene: a guide to this volume -- Reporting, frequency, and correlates of disasters -- Providing compensation to survivors of disasters -- Hurricanes -- Floods and their consequences -- Tornadoes -- Drought and other risks to agriculture -- Wildfires -- Geological and man-made disasters -- Disasters and compensation systems -- Figures -- References -- Authors -- Index -- About the institute; Open Access
N2  - The authors examine examine the increasing frequency of disasters in the United States along with their costs, compensation, mitigation strategies, and where different types are likely to occur
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/49623/
ER  -