Recovery Diva

MAY 7, 2022

Book Review: The Invention of Disaster: Power of Knowledge in Discourses of Hazard and Vulnerability. The book is part of Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change. Author : JC Gaillard, Professor of Geography, University of Auckland, New Zealand. Series Editor: Ilan Kelman. For more information: [link].

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Emergency Planning

JUNE 9, 2019

Warming has already begun to have a substantial effect on the magnitude and frequency of meteorological hazards. Migration could conceivably be the result of major disasters, not merely of climate trends (as they affect the carrying capacity of areas of land) and of conflict, oppression and political hostility. Krausmann, E.,

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Emergency Planning

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Civil protection, in the form of locally-based disaster response capacity, would begin to emerge in the following decade, which would end with the inauguration of the United Nations Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction.

Natural Hazard 130

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Recovery Diva

MAY 12, 2022

3 …requires full harnessing of the communities transformative and adaptive capacity in order to reduce risks for the future…working to eliminate existing patterns of unequal distribution of risk. #4 4 …is not possible without equal access to resources and programs. The chapter is based on the writing of the late Rev.

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Recovery Diva

MARCH 4, 2025

Our understanding of hazards and disasters is rapidly changing, and it is unclear as to whether our existing management systems are adequate to adapt to current and future disasters. Thoroughly updated to include the latest research in the hazards and disasters field, U.S. Note that the Diva is one of the editors.

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