Emergency Planning

MAY 27, 2019

We are now treated to the irony of long queues forming to look at pages and notebooks whose author regarded them as intensely private. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 13(11): 2707-2716. Leonardo wrote for himself, privately, often using his ambidextrous skills to write in mirror image. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8306.1986.tb00102.x

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Natural Hazard Risk Reduction All-Hazards Hazard 130

Emergency Planning

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

It is an architectural paradise of which the inhabitants are, rightly, fiercely proud. Yet, faced with natural hazards, relative isolation, economic deprivation and cultural decline, it badly needs social solidarity, and that is something it lacks. The current urban form was largely given to it by Norman invaders 940 years ago.

Risk Reduction 130

Risk Reduction Resilience Natural Hazard Hazard 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". Fourthly, relationships of trust and participation need to be built between the authorities and the general public. Powerful floods struck Puerto Lumbreras again in 2012.

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