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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

2007, Ambraseys and Bilham 2011) suggest that the principal cause of earthquake disasters is corruption, which weakens or prevents defensive anti-seismic measures. Bilham 2011. Register 2007. Public sector corruption and major earthquakes: a potentially deadly interaction. Public Choice 132: 209-230.