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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Emergency Planning

2012) found that the negative aspects, such as the diffusion of unfounded rumour, were self-correcting. For example, if people are poor and their lives are generally precarious, they cannot be made resilient against disasters such as floods and earthquakes unless the problem of vulnerability to life's exigencies in general is reduced.