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

Emergency Planning

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 15: 931-945. Natural Hazards 109: 161-200. Why RC buildings failed in the 2011 Van, Turkey, earthquakes: construction versus design practices. A view on how to mitigate earthquake damages in Turkey from a civil engineering perspective. Ecemis, S.Z. Korkmaz, M.H.

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Foresight

Emergency Planning

It is obvious that military instability is likely to complicate and retard the process of getting natural hazard impacts under control. Geopolitics, globalised production, global competition for natural resources and the world-wide effects of climate change all have local impacts and implications. References Fukuyama, F.

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Book Review: Justice, Equity, and Emergency Management

Recovery Diva

Review by Donald Watson, co-author with Michele Adams of Design for Flooding: Resilience to Climate Change (Wiley 2011). Richard Krajeski, presented with transcribed commentary by a dozen participants of a special session held in his memory as part of the July 2020 Natural Hazard Workshop. Emerald Publishing Ltd.