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1. Handbook of Disaster Policies and Institutions

   Improving Emergency Management and Climate Change Adaptation, 2nd Edition

   By John Handmer, Stephen Dovers

   Disasters both natural and human-induced are leading to spiralling costs in terms of human lives, lost livelihoods and damaged assets and businesses. Yet these consequences and the financial and human crises that follow catastrophes can often be traced to policies unsuited to the emerging scales of...

   Published January 8th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Handbook of Disaster and Emergency Policies and Institutions

   By John Handmer, Stephen Dovers

   Disasters both natural and human-induced are leading to spiralling costs in terms of human lives, lost livelihoods and damaged assets and businesses. Yet these consequences and the financial and human crises that follow catastrophes can often be traced to policies unsuited to the emerging scales of...

   Published October 10th 2007 by Routledge
3. Environmental Management and Governance

   Intergovernmental Approaches to Hazards and Sustainability

   Edited by Raymond Burby, Jennifer Dixon, Neil Ericksen, John Handmer, Peter May, Sarah Michaels, D. Ingle Smith

   Problems for environmental management are taking on a new urgency. This book addresses aspects of environmental management that raise fundamental questions about governmental roles and the relationship of humans to the environment. It examines the interaction of local and national governments and...

   Published August 21st 1996 by Routledge
4. Hazard Management and Emergency Planning

   Perspectives in Britain

   By Dennis Parker, John Handmer

   This book assesses critically the British approach to hazard management and emergency planning. It identifies the principal legal, organizational and cultural impediments to more effective hazard management and emergency planning, postulates explanations for the shortcomings in the British approach...

   Published December 31st 1991 by Routledge
5. Flood Hazard Management: British and International Perspectives

   Edited by John W Handmer

   In some important respects floodplain management and flood hazard research is different in Britain from that in other countries. This collection of papers from a conference provides some comparisons. It covers urban flooding, institutions and policy, land use policy, hazard response, and project...

   Published June 29th 1987 by CRC Press