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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?

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Foresight

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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