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

Emergency Planning

AUGUST 20, 2021

A changing situation The eminent anthropologist Anthony Oliver-Smith argued [vi] that in Haiti colonialism has left an enduring legacy of vulnerability to disasters. In his words, "the colonial institutions’ assiduous extraction of surpluses left the population both destitute and vulnerable to hazards for centuries to come."

Vulnerability

Vulnerability All-Hazards Risk Reduction Government

Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Emergency Planning

JULY 29, 2019

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'. In modern disaster risk reduction, problem solvers abound. Haynes 2012. Bird et al.

Risk Reduction

Risk Reduction Internet Media All-Hazards

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

Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

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