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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. Publisher : Routledge by Taylor and Francis Group London and New York. The book is part of Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change. Series Editor: Ilan Kelman. For more information: [link].

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

While not independent of the magnitude of physical forces involved, it is not linearly related to them because it depends on the nature and size of the vulnerabilities that the physical forces act upon. Warming has already begun to have a substantial effect on the magnitude and frequency of meteorological hazards. Alexander, D.