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Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Emergency Planning

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

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). However,'community' is contentious concept (Barrios 2014). Encyclopedia of Crisis Management.

Risk Reduction

Risk Reduction Resilience Natural Hazard Hazard

Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Emergency Planning

JULY 29, 2019

The change is achieved through apomediation (bypassing information gatekeepers), and control now rests in the information itself, and how it is served up to its consumers (Alexander 2014). Any attempt to relate the current anomie to disaster risk reduction (DRR) must take account of the 'egg hypothesis'. Alexander, D.E.

Risk Reduction

Risk Reduction Internet Media All-Hazards

Continuity Professionals Pulse

Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

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