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

Emergency Planning

It is a mixture of simple errors, lax procedures, ignorance, deliberate evasion, indifference to public safety, untenable architectural fashions, corruption and failure to enforce the codes. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 15: 931-945. Natural Hazards 109: 161-200. Mosalam 2003. Ecemis, S.Z.

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Disaster Risk Reduction is not a Paradigm

Emergency Planning

The 1970s were a period in which Kuhn's ideas were vigorously debated by people who were much more knowledgeable in the philosophy of science than I will ever be (Meiland 1974, Nickles 2003, Scheffler 1972). susceptible t o fads and fashions instead of true paradigms? Natural Hazards 86: 969-988. first edition 1962).