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A level of Safety – NFPA Fire & Life Safety Ecosystem

National Fire Protection Association

where fire and life safety experts from across the globe gathered to discuss the principals of the NFPA Fire & Life Safety Ecosystem™ and its application to address today’s fire safety issues. In other words, it identifies the items NFPA feels contribute to achieving the expected level of safety when it comes to fire and electrical hazards.

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Disaster Risk Reduction is not a Paradigm

Emergency Planning

It lacks the spatial dimension of the 1960s work of the geographers Torsten Hägerstrand (1968) and his colleagues, but it has all the other components. This severely limited the applicability of the theory. Sadly, a follow-the-herd mentality all too easily develops among researchers. Natural Hazards 86: 969-988.