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2nd Edition

Module prepared by Ross Bull

This training module has been funded by the United Nations Development Programme in collaboration with the Office of the United Nations Disaster Relief Coordinator for the Disaster Management Training Programme (DMTP) in association with the University of Wisconsin Disaster Management Center.

The preliminary text for this module was prepared by Ross Bull, Chairman of PFM Management Consultants, London.

He acknowledges assistance from, and is particularly grateful to, the following people: Philip Cottle, Agricola Training, Stow, Lincoln, UK; William Dick, Agricultural Risk Management, London, UK; Martin Evans, Booker Tate, Thame, UK; Roger Hay, Food Studies Group, Oxford, UK; J. Roberto Jovel, ECLAC, Santiago, Chile; Thakoor Persaud, IBRD, Washington DC, USA; Julian Roberts, Agricultural Risk Management, London, UK; David Rowland, Sedgwick Group, London, UK; Stephen Webster, United Way, Madison, Wisconsin, USA; Robert Woodthorpe-Brown, Nelson Hurst, London, UK.

Editorial services, including design, educational components and formatting, have been provided by InterWorks. Design consultation and desktop publishing have been provided by Artifax.

The first edition of this module was printed in 1992. Utilization and duplication of the material in this module is permissible; however, source attribution to the Disaster Management Training Programme (DMTP) is required.