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Book Review: The Invention of Disaster

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Book Review: The Invention of Disaster: Power of Knowledge in Discourses of Hazard and Vulnerability. Author : JC Gaillard, Professor of Geography, University of Auckland, New Zealand. Pages: 252; hardcover price $128.00; eBook: $39.16; Amazon hardcover price $137.66 Reviewer: Irmak Renda-Tanali, D.Sc.

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Book Review: Constructing Risk

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Hardback 978-`-80073-162-2 $60.00; Ebook 978-1-80073-163-9 $29.95 2030 Major floodplains, including the Mississippi, returned to function as a natural drainage basins. But this time governments and communities ought to manage the risk with an acceptable collective strategy. 4 of Catastrophes in Context.