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Showing posts with label power. Show all posts
Showing posts with label power. Show all posts
Monday, July 9, 2018

Challenging disaster myths and destructive narratives

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This is an English language version of an article published in Tia Sang magazine (in Vietnamese) on 09/07/2018 by Jason von Meding - origin...
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Monday, September 11, 2017

Grenfell Tower fire exposes the injustice of disasters

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Jason von Meding , University of Newcastle ; Giuseppe Forino , University of Newcastle ; J.C. Gaillard , and Ksenia Chmutina , Loughborough ...
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Thursday, November 17, 2016

What Causes Disasters?

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When you picture a disaster, what comes to mind? The Asian Tsunami? The Haitian Earthquake? Hurricane Katrina? What about the Syrian Civil W...
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Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Scientific Evidence: Generated today, ignored tomorrow

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by Jason von Meding and Giuseppe Forino Habitat III (The United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development) in Quit...
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Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Change, or the Same Old Thing?

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Sometimes it appears that nothing is changing. The rich and powerful continue to find new ways to subjugate, oppress, control and generally...
Saturday, September 24, 2016

Why Study Disasters?

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People often ask me how I got into research, and disaster research in particular. It was actually quite accidental. In late 2005, I was a po...
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Wednesday, September 14, 2016

We Must Democratise Disaster Risk Creation

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As we know all to well, those impacted most by disasters are the poor, the marginalised and the dispossessed. Base vulnerability underpins d...
Tuesday, September 6, 2016

The US Presidential Election: Lesser Evil for Whom?

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Trump or Clinton? Who will America choose? This is the question on everyone's lips, from Brooklyn to Bangkok. The U.S. Commander-in-Ch...
Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Disasters of Imperial Power

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Power, in the wrong hands, leads to disaster.  The United States-led 'war on terror' has made the world anything but more safe and...
Thursday, April 23, 2015

The rising challenge to entitlement: disasters, migration and western values

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2015 is a year of global agreements regarding climate change , disaster risk reduction and sustainable development . The new frameworks pr...