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Descriptor English: Designated Shelters
Descriptor Spanish: Refugios Predeterminados
Descriptor refugios predeterminados
Scope note: Utilización durante los desastres de edificios públicos y otras instalaciones seguras existentes como mecanismos de protección contra fuerzas destructivas ambientales (No confundir con REFUGIO DE EMERGENCIA).
Descriptor Portuguese: Refúgios Predeterminados
Descriptor French: Abris Désignés
Tree number(s): SP8.570.498.526.628.396.365.766
Scope note: Use of public buildings and other pre existing safe facilities during disasters as protective mechanisms against destructive environmental forces (not to be confused with TEMPORARY HOUSING).
Allowable Qualifiers: EC economics
HI history
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
MT methods
OG organization & administration
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
DeCS ID: 22771
Unique ID: DDCS022771
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Designated Shelters - Preferred
Concept UI FD00057897
Scope note Use of public buildings and other pre existing safe facilities during disasters as protective mechanisms against destructive environmental forces (not to be confused with TEMPORARY HOUSING).
Preferred term Designated Shelters



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