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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?