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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

One result of having so many disciplinary perspectives is virtually to preclude consensus on the definition and classification of disasters and the concepts that go with them. There is currently a move to extirpate the term 'natural disasters' on the grounds that disasters by definition are not natural events (UNDRR 2019, p.

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The Road Not Taken | a response to a letter to the editor in the Washington Post about DC, traffic deaths and traffic safety

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Definitely this is another example of DC government's failure to focus and to be innovative. For years I wrote that the DDOT safety dashboard was crap (" DC DDOT transportation access portal doesn't really say anything ," 2010). There's a letter to the editor in yesterday's Washington Post , " D.C. must step up on road deaths."