Recovery Diva

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Disaster and Emergency Management Methods; Social Science Approaches in Application by Jason Rivera. Key words: environmental governance, sustainability, resilience, climate risk, natural hazard, disaster risk reduction, building regulation. Publisher: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York and London. for paperback.,

Natural Hazard 203

Natural Hazard Management Risk Reduction All-Hazards 203

Emergency Planning

JULY 5, 2019

Kuhn's is a model of innovation diffusion, based on observations of the 'model of natural science' (Harvey 1969). It lacks the spatial dimension of the 1960s work of the geographers Torsten Hägerstrand (1968) and his colleagues, but it has all the other components. This severely limited the applicability of the theory.

Risk Reduction 130

Risk Reduction Fashion Natural Hazard All-Hazards 130

Emergency Planning

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

In 2021 a colleague who studies natural hazards wrote to me that "our institute is all but destroyed and colleagues have lost their homes". Each new disaster reveals the shortcomings of hazard mitigation and disaster preparedness. First of all, we need a change in culture towards something more inclusive and more serious.

All-Hazards 130

All-Hazards Natural Hazard Hazard Disaster Preparedness 130