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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

However, an understanding of risk requires, not only an ability to think things through, but also enough information with which to make informed decisions. It could be argued that people do not seek the relevant information, or when supplied with knowledge and expertise they wilfully ignore it. References Alexander, D.E.

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CED and Affordable Housing: How Does Manufactured Housing Fit In?

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Information on the North Carolina Abandoned Manufactured Home program can be found here. An impressive new resource for CED professionals dealing with abandoned manufactured homes was released this year by the EPA: a toolkit complete with step-by-step videos.

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Field 2018). 2010) showed that in Colombia the combined effect of 20,000 small destructive events was much greater than the socio-economic impact of five large disasters. Associating particular kinds of disaster with classes of event obviates the need to restate basic information every time we deal with such phenomena.

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