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Book Review: Disaster and Emergency Management Methods

Recovery Diva

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.,

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Disaster Risk Reduction is not a Paradigm

Emergency Planning

This severely limited the applicability of the theory. Natural Hazards 86: 969-988. It was instead a mathematical interpretation of discontinuities (singularities) in state space. Only the lowest level of singularity could be used to model any physical reality. Ismail-Zadeh, A.T., Takeuchi and D. Paton 2017. first edition 1962).

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Cities, Cultural Heritage and the Culture of Responding to Floods

Emergency Planning

In 2021 a colleague who studies natural hazards wrote to me that "our institute is all but destroyed and colleagues have lost their homes". It needs awareness, application, seriousness and solidarity. Powerful floods struck Puerto Lumbreras again in 2012. Europe is not well protected against flooding.