Perplexities & Passages
A collection of thoughts and quotations that slant, bend, twist, provoke, perplex ... Topics range widely, focusing on health, information, librarianship, technology, ethics, advocacy, accessibility and more. Collected by Patricia F. Anderson.
Aug 9, 2008
10:57pm
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Sudden-impact disasters can be viewed as a continuous time sequence of five different phases: interdisaster, predisaster, impact, emergency, and rehabilitation. … These phases may last from just a few seconds to months or years, with one phase merging into the next.
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- Noji, Eric K. “The Nature of Disaster: General Characteristics and Public Health Effects.” The Public Health Consequences of Disasters, ed. EK Noji. NY: Oxford University Press, (c)1997, p. 13.
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