TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2003//
TI  - Assessing community impacts of natural disasters
JO  - Natural hazards review
A1  - Lindell, Michael K.
A1  - Prater, Carla S.
SP  - 176
EP  - 185
VL  - 4
IS  - 4
N2  - Research on the community impacts of natural disasters has yielded a wide variety of findings, but no coherent model of the process by which hazard agent characteristics produce physical and social impacts. This article summarizes the principal features of this process and describes the ways in which hazard mitigation and emergency preparedness practices can limit the physical impacts and the ways in which community recovery resources and extra-community assistance can reduce social impacts.<p /> 
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SN  - 1527-6988
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)1527-6988(2003)4:4(176)
ID  - ref1
ER  -