Developing Disasters. / John McQuaid and Mark Schleifstein.
by McQuaid, John; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2003Article 17Environment. Publisher: Times-Picayune, 2002ISSN: 1522-3205;.Subject(s): United States. Federal Emergency Management Agency | Disaster relief | Mass casualties | Natural disasters | Population density | Real estate developmentDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Development itself is making places more vulnerable to disaster. As people have tried to tame nature by building homes, redirecting water, suppressing fires and reshaping coastlines, they have disrupted or blocked natural processes. But you can't just lock nature in place, and these measures have accelerated cycles of destruction in unpredictable and dangerous ways." (THE SEATTLE TIMES) This article describes the ways that natural disasters are destroying communities.
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Originally Published: Developing Disasters, July 8, 2002; pp. A3.
"Development itself is making places more vulnerable to disaster. As people have tried to tame nature by building homes, redirecting water, suppressing fires and reshaping coastlines, they have disrupted or blocked natural processes. But you can't just lock nature in place, and these measures have accelerated cycles of destruction in unpredictable and dangerous ways." (THE SEATTLE TIMES) This article describes the ways that natural disasters are destroying communities.
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