2013 Hazard Risk Reduction Vulnerability 
Emergency Planning
MAY 30, 2019
The United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction was born out of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, 1990-2000. On 1 May 2019 it was renamed the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. An example of this for the 2013 GAR can be found in Di Mauro (2014).
Emergency Planning
JUNE 9, 2019
The study of disasters is a 'lateral discipline' that, to varying degrees embraces at least 42 other disciplines and professions (Alexander 2013). The next question is where to draw the boundaries in the study of disasters and practice of disaster risk reduction. Disaster is fundamentally a social phenomenon.
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