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Reflections on the Turkish-Syrian Earthquakes of 6th February 2023: Building Collapse and its Consequences

Emergency Planning

It is a mixture of simple errors, lax procedures, ignorance, deliberate evasion, indifference to public safety, untenable architectural fashions, corruption and failure to enforce the codes. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 15: 931-945. Natural Hazards 109: 161-200. It is these that collapse. Ecemis, S.Z.

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Disaster Risk Reduction is not a Paradigm

Emergency Planning

susceptible t o fads and fashions instead of true paradigms? By contrast, a fad or fashion involves imitation rather than strictly parallel endeavour (a fad is a more pejorative version of a fashion). Fads and fashions are far too imitative to be efficient, effective ways of addressing our problems. Ismail-Zadeh, A.T.,

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Writing Incident Scenarios: An Operational Resilience Trend Returns

Plan B Consulting

The return of the mullet What was once fashionable always tends to come back into fashion at some point. Fashion from my youth has come round again, as we are seeing the return of shoulder pads, big hair and the mullet. Flared trousers seem to come and go quite regularly.

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Writing Incident Scenarios: An Operational Resilience Trend Returns

Plan B Consulting

What was once fashionable always tends to come back into fashion at some point. Fashion from my youth has come round again, as we are seeing the return of shoulder pads, big hair and the mullet. Like all good fashion trends, there are always people who cling to past trends, long after they have become unfashionable.