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Book Review: Constructing Risk

Recovery Diva

While dense in some parts and requiring familiarity with definitions and acronyms of UN and related climate policy documents (a list of abbreviations is provided), a careful reading is rewarded by lessons learned and to be learned in the emerging field of disaster risk management. That strategy is MAS—mutually assured survival.”

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

While not independent of the magnitude of physical forces involved, it is not linearly related to them because it depends on the nature and size of the vulnerabilities that the physical forces act upon. Na-techs' (natural-technological disasters) appear in this category (Krausmann et al. Necci 2019. UNDRR 2019.