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Right now, as part of the ongoing @blackwellbooks virtual festival, @ilankelman is here to talk about ‘Disaster by Choice’. Welcome everyone! https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Disaster-by-Choice-by-Ilan-Kelman-author/9780198841340
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. @ilankelman is a Professor in Risk, Resilience and Global Health at University College London, England and a researcher at the University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway. His overall research interest is linking disasters and health...
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... including the integration of climate change into disaster research and health research. ‘Disaster by Choice’ explores stories of some of our worst disasters to show how we can and should act to stop people dying when nature unleashes its energies...
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...The disaster is not the tornado, the volcanic eruption, or climate change, but the deaths and injuries, the loss of irreplaceable property, and the lack and even denial of support to affected people, so that a short-term interruption becomes a long-term recovery nightmare...
