Disasters in the United States Frequency, Costs, and Compensation /
Vera Brusentsev, Wayne Vroman.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Setting the scene: a guide to this volume -- Reporting, frequency, and correlates of disasters -- Providing compensation to survivors of disasters -- Hurricanes -- Floods and their consequences -- Tornadoes -- Drought and other risks to agriculture -- Wildfires -- Geological and man-made disasters -- Disasters and compensation systems -- Figures -- References -- Authors -- Index -- About the institute.
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Compensation management--United States. Natural disasters--Law and legislation--United States. Disaster relief--Law and legislation--United States. Disasters--Costs.--United States