Architecture Hazard Natural Hazard 
Emergency Planning
FEBRUARY 9, 2021
It was clear that the US Government was influenced by the suffering and the shortcomings of the response to the tragedy as it built up its own capacity to respond to natural hazard impacts. It proved to be a crucible of experimentation in architectural, engineering and urban planning terms.
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.
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Emergency Planning
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
It is a mixture of simple errors, lax procedures, ignorance, deliberate evasion, indifference to public safety, untenable architectural fashions, corruption and failure to enforce the codes. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 15: 931-945. Natural Hazards 109: 161-200. Ecemis, S.Z. Korkmaz, M.H. Korkmaz 2021.
Emergency Planning
MAY 27, 2019
His fascination in the modern era consists of a mixture of his genius in many fields (painting, natural history, hydraulics, flight, mechanics, architecture, military strategy, weaponry, anatomy, and so on) and his secretiveness. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 13(11): 2707-2716. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8306.1986.tb00102.x
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. Powerful floods struck Puerto Lumbreras again in 2012. Why has this not solved the problem?
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