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The 2019 Global Assessment Report (GAR)

Emergency Planning

Unofficial voices have suggested that the 'cure to damage ratio' for natural hazards is 1:43. One of the most intransigent problems with the predecessor of the Sendai Framework, Hyogo Framework for Action, 2005-2015, was its resolute reliance on a 'top-down' approach. UNISDR 2005. The 'should ratio'. link] Di Mauro, M. (ed.)

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

For example, counter-terrorism policy and policy against natural hazards can be quite different. Taxonomy can start with basic distinctions (natural, technological, social, intentional and composite) and then proceed to further divisions and subdivisions. Caffrey 2005. Disasters 42(S2): S265-S286. Krausmann, E.,