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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Emergency Planning

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.