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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. Vast resources are now devoted to distorting the picture, and all three superpowers are busy utilising them (Druzin and Gordon 2018, Merrin 2019, Rudick and Dannels 2019). In modern disaster risk reduction, problem solvers abound.