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Cities, Cultural Heritage and the Culture of Responding to Floods

Emergency Planning

Powerful floods struck Puerto Lumbreras again in 2012. Each new disaster reveals the shortcomings of hazard mitigation and disaster preparedness. In addition the city's emergency plan has been comprehensively revised. The public does not tolerate parsimony in the aftermath of great destructive emergencies.