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Leonardo and the Deluge

Emergency Planning

We are now treated to the irony of long queues forming to look at pages and notebooks whose author regarded them as intensely private. Towards the end of his life he became preoccupied with the threat of the Universal Deluge (in this he was not alone: see my paper on the etymology of the term 'resilience'). DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8306.1986.tb00102.x

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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). The struggle to create community resilience pits organised collective action against individualism.