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Book Review: Justice, Equity, and Emergency Management

Recovery Diva

Emerald Publishing Ltd. 3 …requires full harnessing of the communities transformative and adaptive capacity in order to reduce risks for the future…working to eliminate existing patterns of unequal distribution of risk. #4 Review of Justice, Equity, and Emergency Management, e dited by Allessandra Jerolleman and William L.

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

Pandemics are included because many of the effects of a pandemic are likely to be socio-economic in nature. There is also a link between pandemics and the 'intentional disaster' of bioterrorism (Trufanov et al. Warming has already begun to have a substantial effect on the magnitude and frequency of meteorological hazards.