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How Shall We Communicate Risk in an Era of ‘Manufactured Reality’?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Yet in her mind none of this is sufficient to overrule the convenience of being able to go out of her house straight into her car and drive away. The French sociologist Emile Durkheim rescued it from obscurity and used it in his 1893 book De la division du travail social (translated as The Division of Labour in Society ). Durkheim, E.