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Rapid assessment of potential impacts of a Tsunami: lessons from the Port of Galle in Sri Lanka [1]

This document presents a simple approach to elaborate a scenario regarding the potential impacts of a tsunami in a city exposed to such a hazard. The approach has been tailored to span eleven typical development sectorswhich are present in every city such as health,education,housing, life-lines, transportation,
telecommunications, industry, government, etc.

Publication Date: 
01/06/2008
Juan Carlos Villagrn de Len [2]
United Nations University [3]
Tags:
Development [4], Natural Disasters [5], Health [6], Transport [7], Tsunami [8], Disaster Management [9], Housing [10], Industry [11], Education [12], Sri Lanka [13], Telecommunication [14]
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