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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. Tierney (2008) provided a functional semantic classification of the size of extreme events (revised by Alexander 2016, p. ) Field 2018). Elliott, D.,

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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. Since 2005 or 2006 I have been recommending that the city create Traffic Management Districts as a way to coordinate transportation management and improvements at the commercial district scale (e.g. must step up on road deaths."