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The 2019 Global Assessment Report (GAR)

Emergency Planning

An example of this for the 2013 GAR can be found in Di Mauro (2014). Unofficial voices have suggested that the 'cure to damage ratio' for natural hazards is 1:43. Global probabilistic assessment of risk from natural hazards for the Global Assessment Report 2013 (GAR13). The 'should ratio'. link] Di Mauro, M. (ed.)

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Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Emergency Planning

However,'community' is contentious concept (Barrios 2014). Yet, faced with natural hazards, relative isolation, economic deprivation and cultural decline, it badly needs social solidarity, and that is something it lacks. At its most benign, it is about relative influence (Barrios 2014). Encyclopedia of Crisis Management.