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Utilizing Traditional Environmental Knowledge in Industrialized Nations to Assist in Disaster Evacuations

Using traditional ecological knowledge (TEK), which is typically reserved for understanding how indigenous societies function successfully, and applying this to developed countries' ideas of disaster planning and response, emergency planners, public officials, and lay-persons can gain an understanding of their environment. Stories, history, education, and The waterborne evacuation of Lower Manhattan on September 11, 2001 provides a backdrop with which to test the tenets of TEK in a developed nation setting. This dissertation has found that TEK was effective when used by a developed nation and should be integrated into the current disaster system in the US.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc271853
Date05 1900
CreatorsLea, Brandi M.
ContributorsMcEntire, David, Benavides, Abraham, Kendra, James, Bland, Robert
PublisherUniversity of North Texas
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
FormatText
RightsPublic, Lea, Brandi M., Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights Reserved.

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