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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. How much simpler to attribute it all to anonymous forces within the ground! Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 15: 931-945.

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Disaster Risk Reduction is not a Paradigm

Emergency Planning

Kuhn's is a model of innovation diffusion, based on observations of the 'model of natural science' (Harvey 1969). It lacks the spatial dimension of the 1960s work of the geographers Torsten Hägerstrand (1968) and his colleagues, but it has all the other components. susceptible t o fads and fashions instead of true paradigms?

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Writing Incident Scenarios: An Operational Resilience Trend Returns

Plan B Consulting

The return of the mullet What was once fashionable always tends to come back into fashion at some point. Fashion from my youth has come round again, as we are seeing the return of shoulder pads, big hair and the mullet. Flared trousers seem to come and go quite regularly.

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Writing Incident Scenarios: An Operational Resilience Trend Returns

Plan B Consulting

What was once fashionable always tends to come back into fashion at some point. Fashion from my youth has come round again, as we are seeing the return of shoulder pads, big hair and the mullet. Like all good fashion trends, there are always people who cling to past trends, long after they have become unfashionable.