Disaster Management: Warning Response and Community Relocation

by Alvin H. Mushkatel, Ronald W. Perry, Ronald Perry

Book Overview

This book addresses two common problems encountered by emergency services personnel: the design and implementation of evacuation warning systems to ensure citizen compliance with the directives of authorities and the permanent relocation of families threatened by hazards. The authors pay particular attention to the problems of constructing warning messages; to the citizen's interpretation of message content; the techniques of delivering warning messages;...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0899300782
• ISBN13: 9780899300788
• Release Date: June 1984
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"