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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

b) Technological disasters, caused by malfunction or unintended consequences of technology. Na-techs' (natural-technological disasters) appear in this category (Krausmann et al. A more up-to-date rationale might state that "there is nothing more natural than human propensity to cause disasters." Krausmann, E.,

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The 1980 Southern Italian Earthquake After Forty Years

Emergency Planning

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. This rather bizarre and dysfunctional strategy is purely the result of the pattern of availability of money.

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Book Review: Justice, Equity, and Emergency Management

Recovery Diva

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.