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Book Review: The Invention of Disaster

Recovery Diva

is a disaster risk management specialist, currently working for the Pacific Disaster Center (PDC Global). Reviewer: Irmak Renda-Tanali, D.Sc. The neoliberalist interventions at the local levels in other parts of the world, aside from only a few tangible outcomes, have largely been ineffective.

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Book Review: Justice, Equity, and Emergency Management

Recovery Diva

Review of Justice, Equity, and Emergency Management, e dited by Allessandra Jerolleman and William L. Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management. Richard Krajeski, presented with transcribed commentary by a dozen participants of a special session held in his memory as part of the July 2020 Natural Hazard Workshop.

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

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.,