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Natural Hazard

Vulnerability

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". On the approach road a steel girder viaduct had been folded up and swept kilometres downstream by the violence of the water.

All-Hazards

All-Hazards Natural Hazard Hazard Disaster Preparedness

Foresight

Emergency Planning

APRIL 24, 2022

The cascade is a result of the progression of a shock through different kinds of vulnerability. It is obvious that military instability is likely to complicate and retard the process of getting natural hazard impacts under control. There has recently been a surge of research interest in disaster and conflict (ref).

Natural Hazard

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Cities, Cultural Heritage and the Culture of Responding to Floods

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