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Book Review: Disaster and Emergency Management Methods

Recovery Diva

Disaster and Emergency Management Methods; Social Science Approaches in Application by Jason Rivera. Key words: environmental governance, sustainability, resilience, climate risk, natural hazard, disaster risk reduction, building regulation. Publisher: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York and London. for paperback.,

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Disaster Risk Reduction is not a Paradigm

Emergency Planning

This severely limited the applicability of the theory. Natural Hazards 86: 969-988. It was instead a mathematical interpretation of discontinuities (singularities) in state space. Only the lowest level of singularity could be used to model any physical reality. Ismail-Zadeh, A.T., Takeuchi and D. Paton 2017. first edition 1962).