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Book Review: The Invention of Disaster

Recovery Diva

The book is part of Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change. The author posits that the attempt to reduce disaster losses by bridging the “nature/hazard versus culture/vulnerability binary” by the Western governments in the lesser developed parts of the world has only been partially effective.

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The 1980 Southern Italian Earthquake After Forty Years

Emergency Planning

Civil protection, in the form of locally-based disaster response capacity, would begin to emerge in the following decade, which would end with the inauguration of the United Nations Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction. This rather bizarre and dysfunctional strategy is purely the result of the pattern of availability of money.

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Book Review: Justice, Equity, and Emergency Management

Recovery Diva

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 4 …is not possible without equal access to resources and programs. The chapter is based on the writing of the late Rev. How do we do them?

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

I suggest the following five:- (a) Natural disasters, caused by extreme natural events. Floods, storms and earthquakes dominate the picture, with the ever-present possibility of very large eruptions or extra-terrestrial impacts. (b) For example, counter-terrorism policy and policy against natural hazards can be quite different.