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Working paper volume 94
Pub. Date
[1996]
Description
Discusses building techniques that can mitigate hurricane damage and recommends measures for mitigating future hurricane damage to homes.
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Working paper volume 5
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
In 2014, US states paid a total of $36 billion in Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits. Out of this amount, $4.5 billion were overpayments to beneficiaries. This estimate is based on audit data collected by the Department of Labor (DOL) which has historically monitored the UI system in each state for compliance with federal rules.
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Natural hazard research working paper volume 106
Pub. Date
[2000]
Description
The advent of the Internet has fundamentally altered the discussions of hazard policy between technical experts, public interest activists, and elected risk management policy makers, by providing with the immediacy, duration, geographical reach, and exponential expansion of communications among individuals.
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Natural hazard research working paper volume 99
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
As we enter the 21st century, we are facing new threats and risks, which may mean we will be dealing with new types of hazards and disasters. The disasters of the future may or may not be bigger or worse, but they are likely to be more complex and require more sophistication in response and recovery.
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Natural hazard research working paper volume 107
Pub. Date
[2003]
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Focuses on major terrorist events in the past two decades to review how the essential emergency management (EM) infrastructure changed.
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Natural hazard research working paper volume 101
Pub. Date
[1998]
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This case study developed as part of an investigation into the reassessment of state roles in disaster mitigation and management. This case study concentrates why the Utah legislature waited 13 years to re-establish a seismic safety commission.