Emergency Planning

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 15: 931-945. Natural Hazards 109: 161-200. Select Bibliography of Sources on Turkish R/C Construction Practices Cogurcu, M.T. Construction and design defects in the residential buildings and observed earthquake damage types in Turkey. Ecemis, S.Z. Korkmaz, M.H. Arslan and H.H.

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Natural Hazard All-Hazards Hazard Fashion 183

Emergency Planning

MAY 30, 2019

I have argued elsewhere (Alexander 2017) that the number of times the word 'should' is used in an official document is an inverse indicator of its utility. Unofficial voices have suggested that the 'cure to damage ratio' for natural hazards is 1:43. Disaster Planning and Emergency Management, 18 July 2017. UNDRR 2019b.

Risk Reduction 130

Risk Reduction Natural Hazard All-Hazards Hazard 130

Emergency Planning

JULY 5, 2019

2017), but to answer the question properly, we have to ask another. Paton 2017. Natural Hazards 86: 969-988. So do we have a paradigm in disaster studies? If we do, is it going to be overthrown by a scientific revolution (or a social scientific one)? Some researchers evidently think so (Ismail-Zadeh et al. perhaps not!)

Risk Reduction 130

Risk Reduction Fashion Natural Hazard All-Hazards 130

Emergency Planning

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Yet, faced with natural hazards, relative isolation, economic deprivation and cultural decline, it badly needs social solidarity, and that is something it lacks. For example, the survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire of June 2017 are united in their quest for justice and decent living conditions.

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Risk Reduction Resilience Natural Hazard Hazard 130