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Cities, Cultural Heritage and the Culture of Responding to Floods

Emergency Planning

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Powerful floods struck Puerto Lumbreras again in 2012. In 2021 a colleague who studies natural hazards wrote to me that "our institute is all but destroyed and colleagues have lost their homes". Each new disaster reveals the shortcomings of hazard mitigation and disaster preparedness. Why has this not solved the problem?

All-Hazards

All-Hazards Natural Hazard Hazard Disaster Preparedness

Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

Emergency Planning

AUGUST 20, 2021

As bodies piled up on street corners and in courtyards there was no time to count them all. In 1978 the architect Ian Davis published a small book entitled Shelter After Disaster , [iv] which included a number of well-chosen exposés of post-disaster housing as architectural fantasy rather than useful dwelling place. i] Muggah, R.

Vulnerability

Vulnerability All-Hazards Risk Reduction Media

Cities, Cultural Heritage and the Culture of Responding to Floods

Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

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