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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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Online ebook. Open Access via JSTOR.
Online ebook via EBSCO. Access restricted to current Rider University students, faculty, and staff.

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Description 1 online resource
text file
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.
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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access
Subject Compensation management -- United States.
Compensation management.
United States.
Natural disasters -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Natural disasters -- Law and legislation.
Disaster relief -- Law and legislation -- United States.
Disaster relief -- Law and legislation.
Disasters -- United States -- Costs.
Disasters.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
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 book)
0880995246 (electronic book)
9780880995214 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0880995211 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780880995238 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
0880995238 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)

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