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Quick response research report volume 130
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
This study explored the degree to which different types of information technology affect efficiency in interorganizational response to disaster.
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Quick response research report volume 160
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
The present project examined psychological functioning four weeks after a major earthquake. Of special interest was the prevalence of symptoms associated with acute stress disorder.
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Quick response research report volume 133
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
This study focuses first on the nature and extent of damage suffered by particular groups of staff persons; second, it examines recovery assistance and community response to the flood.
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Quick response research report volume 117
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
Communities that implemented an effective public information plan, were effective in maintaining a good relationship between the media and emergency management.
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Quick response research report volume 76
Pub. Date
1995.
Description
The main objective of this study was to examine the means by which residents of a drought affected area of Bangladesh cope with this hazard. Data used in this paper were collected during the summer of 1995 from 301 drought affected households located in the northern part of Bangladesh. Includes statistical charts.
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Quick response research report volume 125
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
Locational characteristics of latitude and longitude were related to orchard risk and mitigation. Orchard size, age of operation, and membership in cooperative organizations predict loss. Experience influenced the propensity to mitigate.
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[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Introduces readers to the skills and technology that came together to help the people and animals escaping the 2018 California wildfires. Simple text and incredible close-up photographs focus on the amazing rescue work.
92) San Andreas
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
When a magnitude nine earthquake leaves California in ruins, a helicopter pilot and his estranged wife make their way to San Francisco to save their only daughter.
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Quick response research report volume 186
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Children's experiences in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina were examined. This research describes the experiences of children and their families in the days and weeks following the storm, discusses what was done on behalf of children to reduce their vulnerability, and illustrates various things that children did for themselves and for others to lessen the impacts of the disaster.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 17
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With their town sliding underwater and everyone being ordered to leave, Keeley and her friends gather to make the most of every minute they have left together, prompting Keeley to take a final chance at winning over a longtime crush.
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MaddAddam trilogy volume 3
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"Bringing together characters from Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood, this thrilling conclusion to Margaret Atwood's speculative fiction trilogy confirms the ultimate endurance of humanity, community, and love. Months after the Waterless Flood pandemic has wiped out most of humanity, Toby and Ren have rescued their friend Amanda from the vicious Painballers. They return to the MaddAddamite cob house, which is being fortified against...
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Quick response research report volume 94
Pub. Date
[1997]
Description
The purpose of this study was to visit one ethnically diverse community in southern California, to observe the role that the new information handbook played in educating the public of its risk to the earthquake hazard.