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Interpreting Covid-19 as a Disaster

Emergency Planning

Distribution of vulnerability. Plenty of evidence exists to show that disasters have a disproportionate impact upon poor and vulnerable people. The role of emergency planning. Since the start of Covid-19 we have seen the failure of emergency planning, which is an indication of failure to provide foresight.

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Reflections on the Turkish-Syrian Earthquakes of 6th February 2023: Building Collapse and its Consequences

Emergency Planning

Most of them are highly vulnerable to seismic forces. Vox clamantis in deserto : to examine this aspect of the disaster one would have to face up to difficult issues, such as corruption, political decision making, people's expectations of public safety, fatalism versus activism, and more. Mosalam 2003. It is these that collapse.