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Disaster Mitigation: Strong Houses or Strong Institutions?
Author(s) -
DUDLEY ERIC
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
disasters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.744
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1467-7717
pISSN - 0361-3666
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-7717.1988.tb00657.x
Subject(s) - indigenous , poison control , suicide prevention , occupational safety and health , injury prevention , human factors and ergonomics , forensic engineering , medical emergency , business , computer security , environmental planning , engineering , political science , geography , computer science , medicine , law , ecology , biology
Though this is primarily afield report on the March 1987 earthquake in Ecuador, I will also argue that agencies interested in reconstruction in the wake of disasters need to help build indigenous institutions prior to disasters.