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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. Encyclopedia of Crisis Management. Disaster Prevention and Management 5(4): 36-40. I need not repeat them here. References Alexander, D.E. Statler and R.

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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. The tendency in research and policy advice is to assume that everyone in power has a strong desire to reduce hazards and threats. Journal of Emergency Management 8(6): 15-27. Social media in disaster risk reduction and crisis management.