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The 2019 Global Assessment Report (GAR)

Emergency Planning

MAY 30, 2019

Unofficial voices have suggested that the 'cure to damage ratio' for natural hazards is 1:43. In putting individuals at the centre of a diagram of actions we see people either crushed between the rock of hazards and the hard place of risk-informed sustainable development or as protagonists in combatting the former with the latter.

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

JUNE 9, 2019

Warming has already begun to have a substantial effect on the magnitude and frequency of meteorological hazards. For example, counter-terrorism policy and policy against natural hazards can be quite different. Caffrey 2005. The health sciences also have a different perspective (Myrtle et al. Disasters 42(S2): S265-S286.

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