Emergency Planning
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Tierney (2008) provided a functional semantic classification of the size of extreme events (revised by Alexander 2016, p. ) The next question is where to draw the boundaries in the study of disasters and practice of disaster risk reduction. The health sciences also have a different perspective (Myrtle et al.
Emergency Planning
AUGUST 20, 2021
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." Nowhere more than in Haiti has disaster been made inevitable by the nexus of poverty and vulnerability.
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