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tensive responsibilities in an area which once was the preserve of the scientists and engineers of the Geological Survey and the Corps of Engineers. In the academic world, psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists and economists have joined engineers, climatologists, hydrologists and geographers in working on one or another aspect of the problem.' Several reasons for this expanded interest may easily be found. On one level, the ability of television to bring the impact of natural disasters home (literally) to large numbers of people has created a background climate of awareness, sympathy and concern about possible local occurrences of these same
Clifford S. Russell (Sun,) studied this question.