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All-Hazards

Risk Reduction

Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

JUNE 9, 2019

Tierney (2008) provided a functional semantic classification of the size of extreme events (revised by Alexander 2016, p. ) d) Intentional disasters, comprising all forms of terrorism and sabotage. (e) The next question is where to draw the boundaries in the study of disasters and practice of disaster risk reduction.

Risk Reduction

Risk Reduction Natural Hazard All-Hazards Hazard

Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

Emergency Planning

AUGUST 20, 2021

As bodies piled up on street corners and in courtyards there was no time to count them all. For example, in the 2008 hurricane season, four named storms arrived. In his words, "the colonial institutions’ assiduous extraction of surpluses left the population both destitute and vulnerable to hazards for centuries to come."

Vulnerability

Vulnerability All-Hazards Risk Reduction Government

Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

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