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Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Emergency Planning

Yet, faced with natural hazards, relative isolation, economic deprivation and cultural decline, it badly needs social solidarity, and that is something it lacks. In Florence, by contrast, there is a living, active concept of fiorentinesimo. Encyclopedia of Crisis Management. Disaster Prevention and Management 5(4): 36-40.

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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Emergency Planning

The former has been in widespread use since about 1993, and the latter since around 2009. Its antidotes are thought, reasoning, action, activism, and the application of ethics and morality. The tendency in research and policy advice is to assume that everyone in power has a strong desire to reduce hazards and threats.