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Common Misconceptions about Disaster

Emergency Planning

In addition, technology is a potential source of vulnerability as well as a means of reducing it. The fact that disaster happens can be used in a positive way to increase resilience against future impacts. Myth 59: Cost-benefit data will convince decision makers to invest in disaster risk reduction. See: Alexander, D.E.

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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Emergency Planning

Any attempt to relate the current anomie to disaster risk reduction (DRR) must take account of the 'egg hypothesis'. In modern disaster risk reduction, problem solvers abound. Social media in disaster risk reduction and crisis management. Register 2007. Anomie and shortage of disaster governance.