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Disaster Risk Reduction is not a Paradigm

Emergency Planning

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? Sadly, a follow-the-herd mentality all too easily develops among researchers. Natural Hazards 86: 969-988.