Canadian Disaster Management Policy: Moving Toward a Paradigm Shift?
In light of rising disaster losses in recent years and predictions of a more hazardous natural environment in the future, many countries around the world are revising their policies for disaster management to incorporate a stronger emphasis on disaster mitigation and risk reduction. In this paper, we argue that Canada has not sufficientl y integrated mitigation into disaster management and we discuss several barriers that impede progress in this area.
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2005
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Authors: | Henstra, Dan ; McBean, Gordon |
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Canadian Public Policy. - University of Toronto Press. - Vol. 31.2005, 3, p. 303-318
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University of Toronto Press |
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