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Book Review: Constructing Risk

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Constructing Risk: Disaster, Development, and the Built Environment by Stephen O. Stakeholders may not now consider disaster risk reduction the domain of development, but unwittingly development has become the domain for survival of human beings.” BenderNew York: Berghahn. 4 of Catastrophes in Context.

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Unlocking Climate Change Resilience Through Critical Event Management and Public Warning

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trillion in global economic losses,” according to a report conducted by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR). There has also been a rise in geophysical events including earthquakes and tsunamis which have killed more people than any of the other natural hazards under review in this report.