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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Emergency Planning

2012) found that the negative aspects, such as the diffusion of unfounded rumour, were self-correcting. Any attempt to relate the current anomie to disaster risk reduction (DRR) must take account of the 'egg hypothesis'. Anomie and shortage of disaster governance. In modern disaster risk reduction, problem solvers abound.

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

Emergency Planning

million people were displaced from their homes, but the earthquake destroyed more than people and their homes: it dealt a near fatal blow to government. of monetary relief went to the Haitian Government, and yet that is exactly where responsibility for public services and safety lay. ii] Farmer, Paul 2012. i] Muggah, R.