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Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Emergency Planning

In disaster risk reduction circles, there is an almost desperate reliance on 'community' and a strong growth in studies and plans to "involve the community" in facing up to risks and impacts (Berkes and Ross 2013). It is an architectural paradise of which the inhabitants are, rightly, fiercely proud. Statler and R.

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Leonardo and the Deluge

Emergency Planning

His fascination in the modern era consists of a mixture of his genius in many fields (painting, natural history, hydraulics, flight, mechanics, architecture, military strategy, weaponry, anatomy, and so on) and his secretiveness. Resilience and disaster risk reduction: an etymological journey. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8306.1986.tb00102.x