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Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Emergency Planning

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Yet, faced with natural hazards, relative isolation, economic deprivation and cultural decline, it badly needs social solidarity, and that is something it lacks. Several arguments can be marshalled against the idea of community resilience:- The concept of 'community' has no inherent geographical scale. I need not repeat them here.

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Risk Reduction Resilience Natural Hazard Hazard

Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Emergency Planning

JULY 29, 2019

The former has been in widespread use since about 1993, and the latter since around 2009. For example, if people are poor and their lives are generally precarious, they cannot be made resilient against disasters such as floods and earthquakes unless the problem of vulnerability to life's exigencies in general is reduced. Bird et al.

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Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

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