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Disasters for People with Disabilities in the Cook Islands

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Disability and Disaster

Part of the book series: Disaster Studies ((DIS))

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Do disaster and disability mix? Of course they do; and in this world today, as we speak, people with disabilities are the first to encounter disaster. People with disability are vulnerable to every disaster that happens across the globe and my intention is to focus on disaster and disability here in the Cook Islands.

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Ilan Kelman Laura M. Stough

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© 2015 Ilan Kelman and Laura M. Stough

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Mataiti, M. (2015). Disasters for People with Disabilities in the Cook Islands. In: Kelman, I., Stough, L.M. (eds) Disability and Disaster. Disaster Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137486004_17

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