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Book Review: The Invention of Disaster

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Book Review: The Invention of Disaster: Power of Knowledge in Discourses of Hazard and Vulnerability. Pages: 252; hardcover price $128.00; eBook: $39.16; Amazon hardcover price $137.66 The book is part of Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change. Series Editor: Ilan Kelman. For more information: [link].

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Book Review: Constructing Risk

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Constructing Risk: Disaster, Development, and the Built Environment by Stephen O. Hardback 978-`-80073-162-2 $60.00; Ebook 978-1-80073-163-9 $29.95 Stakeholders may not now consider disaster risk reduction the domain of development, but unwittingly development has become the domain for survival of human beings.”