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Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Emergency Planning

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

In disaster risk reduction circles, there is an almost desperate reliance on 'community' and a strong growth in studies and plans to "involve the community" in facing up to risks and impacts (Berkes and Ross 2013). In Florence, by contrast, there is a living, active concept of fiorentinesimo. I need not repeat them here.

Risk Reduction

Risk Reduction Resilience Natural Hazard Hazard

Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Emergency Planning

JULY 29, 2019

The former has been in widespread use since about 1993, and the latter since around 2009. Any attempt to relate the current anomie to disaster risk reduction (DRR) must take account of the 'egg hypothesis'. Its antidotes are thought, reasoning, action, activism, and the application of ethics and morality. Bird et al.

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Risk Reduction Internet Media All-Hazards

Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

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