Disaster Planning, Emergency Management and Civil Protection: The Historical Development of Organized Efforts To Plan For and To Respond To Disasters
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2000
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Disaster Research Center
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The human race has been faced with natural disasters since it has evolved. In more recent times it has had to contend also with technological disasters. Our interest is in how human beings have organized themselves collectively to deal with such threats and damages to their lives, property and their everyday routines. More specifically, in a selective fashion we discuss how societies and their subdivisions (particularly at the local community level) have in the past and now prepare for and respond to natural and technological disasters.
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emergency management, disaster planning, civil protection, natural disaster, technological disaster