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

JULY 29, 2019

2012) found that the negative aspects, such as the diffusion of unfounded rumour, were self-correcting. Any attempt to relate the current anomie to disaster risk reduction (DRR) must take account of the 'egg hypothesis'. In modern disaster risk reduction, problem solvers abound. Haynes 2012. Bird et al.

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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." Stability, good governance and democratic participation are essential ingredients of disaster risk reduction. ii] Farmer, Paul 2012. i] Muggah, R.

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