Emergency Planning

AUGUST 22, 2019

I am the founding editor of the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (IJDRR), which began publishing in August 2012 with just four papers. Prior to submitting a work for publication, one must make sure that one has read all the truly pertinent literature.

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Emergency Planning

JULY 29, 2019

2012) found that the negative aspects, such as the diffusion of unfounded rumour, were self-correcting. Vast resources are now devoted to distorting the picture, and all three superpowers are busy utilising them (Druzin and Gordon 2018, Merrin 2019, Rudick and Dannels 2019). In modern disaster risk reduction, problem solvers abound.

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Emergency Planning

AUGUST 20, 2021

As bodies piled up on street corners and in courtyards there was no time to count them all. In his words, "the colonial institutions’ assiduous extraction of surpluses left the population both destitute and vulnerable to hazards for centuries to come." Haiti has long had a shortage of all three. ii] Farmer, Paul 2012.

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