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

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

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 ). Disaster Prevention and Management 6(2): 94-106. Further reading Chomsky, N. Durkheim, E. The Division of Labour in Society. ( Quarantelli, E.L.

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Great News for Chile

Human Transit

In the 2000s was a key advisor to the project that created Transantiago , a government agency managing all public transport in the capital region. I remember riding a Santiago bus with Juan Carlos in the bad old days of 2004: Bus drivers raced down the street, cutting each other off in hopes of grabbing the passengers at each stop.