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Book Review: The Invention of Disaster

Recovery Diva

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. is a disaster risk management specialist, currently working for the Pacific Disaster Center (PDC Global). Reviewer: Irmak Renda-Tanali, D.Sc.

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Book Review: Justice, Equity, and Emergency Management

Recovery Diva

Review of Justice, Equity, and Emergency Management, e dited by Allessandra Jerolleman and William L. Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management. Emerald Publishing Ltd. Review by Donald Watson, co-author with Michele Adams of Design for Flooding: Resilience to Climate Change (Wiley 2011).

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

Disaster risk reduction policy is heavily influenced by the class of disaster involved. For example, counter-terrorism policy and policy against natural hazards can be quite different. Natural Disasters. University College London Press, London, and Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 632 pp. Alexander, D.