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Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Emergency Planning

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

In disaster risk reduction circles, there is an almost desperate reliance on 'community' and a strong growth in studies and plans to "involve the community" in facing up to risks and impacts (Berkes and Ross 2013). However,'community' is contentious concept (Barrios 2014). Hence, 'community' is about influence.

Risk Reduction

Risk Reduction Resilience Natural Hazard Hazard

The 2019 Global Assessment Report (GAR)

Emergency Planning

MAY 30, 2019

The United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction was born out of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, 1990-2000. On 1 May 2019 it was renamed the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. An example of this for the 2013 GAR can be found in Di Mauro (2014). GNCSODR 2015.

Risk Reduction

Risk Reduction Natural Hazard All-Hazards Hazard

Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

The 2019 Global Assessment Report (GAR)

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