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#EMReadingList: Day off & re-reading Amanda Ripley's (2008) The Unthinkable, the next @Epicenter_EM book club pick. As always I'll share items for EM/disaster mgmt folks as I go. Looking at those tabs there should be lots. #EMGTwitter if you've read it, what are your takeaways? Image
A motto for disaster/EM researchers&students: "Knowledge will grow scientific only after the most faithful examination of many catastrophies"(vii) from Samuel H. Prince's 1920 Catastrophe & Social Change, i.e. the first study of disaster, the one about the 1917 Halifax explosion.
"These days, we tend to think of disasters as acts of God and government. Regular people only feature in the equation as victims, which is a shame. Because regular people are the most important people at a disaster scene, every time" (xi). Still pretty accurate 13 years on...
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