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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.