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- Title
Coping with Catastrophe.
- Authors
Lissner, Will
- Abstract
The article discusses the scientific ways of coping with natural catastrophes. For several million years the human race has been improving its control over what a hostile environment. Mother Earth shelters, protects, and nurtures us, but she also brutally kills and maims many of us. One of the ways by which we reduce those aberrations of our planet is by the application of science. These procedures are involved in what economists call risk analysis and hazard mitigation planning. Of course people cannot control or even affect the movements in the earth's crust which are the immediate cause of most earthquakes, movements which occur thousands of times each year and which in the past 4,000 years have caused some 13 million deaths and catastrophic injuries and destruction. But the deaths, injuries and destruction can be reduced The findings of researcher Ben-Chieh Liu and his associates demonstrate that land use planning and building codes in areas threatened by earthquakes, as well as emergency management plans, need to be reexamined and revised to take into account our new knowledge of how to mitigate earthquake destruction.
- Subjects
DISASTERS; LIFE skills; CATASTROPHISM; LAND use planning; BEN-Chieh Liu; SCIENTIFIC method
- Publication
American Journal of Economics & Sociology, 1984, Vol 43, Issue 3, p299
- ISSN
0002-9246
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1536-7150.1984.tb01742.x