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Foresight

Emergency Planning

As an example, consider the impact of the Fukushima Daiā€™ichi nuclear release in Japan in 2011 on nuclear energy policy in other countries (Wittneben 2012,Kim et al. References Fukuyama, F. The End of History and the Last Man. The Free Press, New York, 418 pp. Energy Policy 61: 822-828. DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2013.06.107

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Is it Possible to Keep Up with the Literature?

Emergency Planning

I am the founding editor of the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (IJDRR), which began publishing in August 2012 with just four papers. Seven years later, the submission rate is equivalent to about 1,500 manuscripts per year (although the rejection rate is over 80 per cent).

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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

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2012) found that the negative aspects, such as the diffusion of unfounded rumour, were self-correcting. Haynes 2012. Australian Journal of Emergency Management 27(1): 27-33. The former has been in widespread use since about 1993, and the latter since around 2009. Early views of social media (e.g. Bird et al. Ambraseys, N.

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

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ii] Farmer, Paul 2012. That is an important strength, but time will tell whether it is enough to get by on. [i] i] Muggah, R. The effects of stabilisation on humanitarian action in Haiti. Disasters 34(S3): S444-S463. [ii] Haiti After the Earthquake. Public Affairs, New York, 443 pp. iii] Abrahams, D.