Journal of Geography  & Natural Disasters
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Department of Nature safety, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

Publications

• Editorial   
  
  Author(s): Elizabeth K*
  
  Historically, coping with disasters centered on emergency response, but toward the quit of the twentieth century it was increasingly more acknowledged that failures aren't natural even though the associated danger is and that it's far only with the aid of reducing and managing situations of danger, publicity and vulnerability that we can prevent losses and alleviate the impacts of screw ups. Due to the fact that we can't lessen the severity of herbal risks, the primary opportunity for reducing danger lies in decreasing vulnerability and publicity. Lowering those two additives of risk requires figuring out and reducing the underlying drivers of threat, which are particularly associated with bad financial and concrete development selections and practice, degradation of the environment, poverty and inequality and climate trade, which create and exacerbate conditions of threat.. View More»
  

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