Disasters in the United States : frequency, costs, and compensation / Vera Brusentsev, Wayne Vroman.
Material type: TextPublication details: Kalamazoo : W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, [2017]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
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- 9780880995245
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- Compensation management -- United States
- Natural disasters -- Law and legislation -- United States
- Disaster relief -- Law and legislation -- United States
- Disasters -- United States -- Costs
- Salaires -- Gestion -- États-Unis
- Catastrophes -- États-Unis -- Coût
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Environmental Economics
- Compensation management
- Disaster relief -- Law and legislation
- Natural disasters -- Law and legislation
- United States
- HV555.U6 B78 2017
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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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The authors examine examine the increasing frequency of disasters in the United States along with their costs, compensation, mitigation strategies, and where different types are likely to occur.
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