An Assessment of Natural Hazards and Disasters in Canada

Citation

Etkin, D., Emdad Haque, C. and Brooks, G.R. (2003), "An Assessment of Natural Hazards and Disasters in Canada", Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. 12 No. 5, pp. 466-466. https://doi.org/10.1108/dpm.2003.12.5.466.2

This volume contains articles printed in the Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards (Vol. 28, Nos. 2‐3, 2003); for a special issue devoted to an assessment of natural hazards and disasters in Canada. Articles address disaster management, community planning, and public participation; achieving sustainable hazard mitigation; the contribution of philosophy to hazards assessment and decision making; a general framework for mitigation‐oriented assessments of mobile telecommunications lifelines; seismic hazard mitigation for buildings; and other topics.