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Reflections on the Turkish-Syrian Earthquakes of 6th February 2023: Building Collapse and its Consequences

Emergency Planning

It is a mixture of simple errors, lax procedures, ignorance, deliberate evasion, indifference to public safety, untenable architectural fashions, corruption and failure to enforce the codes. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 15: 931-945. Natural Hazards 109: 161-200. Ecemis, S.Z. Korkmaz, M.H. Korkmaz 2021.

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Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Emergency Planning

It is an architectural paradise of which the inhabitants are, rightly, fiercely proud. Yet, faced with natural hazards, relative isolation, economic deprivation and cultural decline, it badly needs social solidarity, and that is something it lacks. The current urban form was largely given to it by Norman invaders 940 years ago.