Utilizing Traditional Environmental Knowledge in Industrialized Nations to Assist in Disaster Evacuations
Description:
Using traditional ecological knowledge (TEK), which is typically reserved for understanding how indigenous societies function successfully, and applying this to developed countries' ideas of disaster planning and response, emergency planners, public officials, and lay-persons can gain an understanding of their environment. Stories, history, education, and The waterborne evacuation of Lower Manhattan on September 11, 2001 provides a backdrop with which to test the tenets of TEK in a developed na…
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Date:
May 2013
Creator:
Lea, Brandi M.
Partner:
UNT Libraries