The Emergency Evacuation of Cities: A Cross-National Historical and Geographical Study

By Leszek A. Kosinski and Wilbur Zelinsky

Book Overview

Selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1992. In this landmark study, two eminent geographers present the first comparative, cross-national analysis of emergency evacuations engendered by every sort of disaster: military, natural, and industrial. Zelinsky and Kosinski have selected 27 evacuations of cities due to actual or anticipated emergencies during the past fifty years, from the Ohio River Flood of 1937 to the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0847676730
• ISBN13: 9780847676736
• Release Date: September 1991
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.0" x 6.1"