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Author Brusentsev, Vera, author.

Title Disasters in the United States : frequency, costs, and compensation / Vera Brusentsev, Wayne Vroman.

Publication Info. Kalamazoo : W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
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Summary 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.
Subject Compensation management -- United States.
Natural disasters -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Disaster relief -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Disasters -- United States -- Costs.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Compensation management. (OCoLC)fst00871412
Disaster relief -- Law and legislation. (OCoLC)fst00894751
Natural disasters -- Law and legislation. (OCoLC)fst01034007
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Environmental Economics.
Added Author Vroman, Wayne, author.
W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research.
Other Form: Print version: Brusentsev, Vera. Disasters in the United States. Kalamazoo : W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, [2017] (DLC) 2016051246
ISBN 9780880995245 (electronic bk.)
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