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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Something similar has happened with the Internet and social media. The former has been in widespread use since about 1993, and the latter since around 2009. Early views of social media (e.g. Since the late 20th century, the concept of anomie has been reinterpreted (Allan 2005, pp. Gordon 2018.

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Covid-19: Elements of a Scenario

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

It is now more than ten years since there was a general push to induce countries to plan for pandemics (WHO 2005). US Homeland Security Council 2005, UK Government 2008), while in others it did not. US Homeland Security Council 2005. In some quarters, it had an immediate effect (e.g., Spinney, L. Jonathan Cape, London, 352 pp.

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