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Historically, disaster planning has been a fairly static process. Recent research indicating the quasi-cyclic nature of tropical cyclone formation, when combined with human-induced changes to the environment, requires disaster planners to consider the problem of how to create dynamic disaster plans. Geographic Information System technology and remote sensing can provide data bases for numerical models which can be rapidly updated. The Caribbean Disaster Mitigation Project’s experiences in the Caribbean show that while the technical challenges to incorporating variability in the disaster planning process are achievable, the political and economic implications are extensive, and relatively more difficult to overcome.
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Watson, C.C., Vermeiren, J.C. (1997). Incorporating Variability in the Disaster Planning Process. In: Diaz, H.F., Pulwarty, R.S. (eds) Hurricanes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60672-4_10
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