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Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Emergency Planning

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). Encyclopedia of Crisis Management. Disaster Prevention and Management 5(4): 36-40.

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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Emergency Planning

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'. In modern disaster risk reduction, problem solvers abound. Journal of Emergency Management 8(6): 15-27.