Emergency Planning

APRIL 24, 2022

It is obvious that military instability is likely to complicate and retard the process of getting natural hazard impacts under control. As an example, consider the impact of the Fukushima Dai’ichi nuclear release in Japan in 2011 on nuclear energy policy in other countries (Wittneben 2012,Kim et al. References Fukuyama, F.

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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. Seven years later, the submission rate is equivalent to about 1,500 manuscripts per year (although the rejection rate is over 80 per cent).

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Emergency Planning

AUGUST 20, 2021

In his words, "the colonial institutions’ assiduous extraction of surpluses left the population both destitute and vulnerable to hazards for centuries to come." ii] Farmer, Paul 2012. Nowhere more than in Haiti has disaster been made inevitable by the nexus of poverty and vulnerability. i] Muggah, R. Disasters 34(S3): S444-S463. [ii]

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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?

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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. The tendency in research and policy advice is to assume that everyone in power has a strong desire to reduce hazards and threats. Haynes 2012. Australian Journal of Emergency Management 27(1): 27-33. Bird et al.

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