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World Safe from Natural Disasters
The Journey of Latin America and the Caribbean
 In the next several pages, you will find the book A World Safe From
Natural Disasters, a comprehensive look at how the countries of Latin
America and the Caribbean have dealt with the enormous and recurring impact
of natural disasters on their lives and fragile economies. Published as a contribution
from this Region to the World Conference on Natural Disaster Reduction in 1994,
the book traces the transition from an era of improvised reponse and poorly
coordinated international assistance to the more aggressive stance on disaster
preparedness and prevention taken in many countries today.
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This book can be ordered from PAHO's Emergency Preparedness Program (disaster-publications@paho.org),
or can be downloaded, by chapters, as PDF files. You need to have installed
Adobe Acrobat Reader to read these files. It can be obtained free of charge
from the Adobe
Website.
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