The
effectiveness of foreign military assets in natural disaster response
Wiharta, Sharon.
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Stockholm
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
2008
monographic
eng
xv, 139 p. : col. maps ; 24 cm.
This study provides an overview of the current use of foreign military assets in natural disaster response, including how and why they are deployed. It also analyses the role played by foreign military assets in several major disaster relief operations: in Mozambique following the floods in 2000, in Haiti following floods and tropical storm Jeanne in 2004, in Aceh province, Indonesia, following the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, and in Pakistan-administered Kashmir following the South Asia earthquake of 2005.
Sharon Wiharta ... [et al.].
Includes bibliographical references.
Mode of access; World Wide Web.
Disaster relief
Armed Forces
Civic action
Emergency management
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