To Robert Maguire, director of George Washington University's Latin America and hemispheric studies programme, the post-quake business environment has elements of "disaster capitalism".
He began by writing poems, and by the time his second collection, Los Elementos del Desastre (The Elements of Disaster), was published in 1953, had found his style.
Conclusions: The results of this educational demonstration project reveal that students will value and can rapidly learn some core elements of disaster medicine via a novel addition to a medical school's curriculum.
An overview places disaster risk management in the context of multisectoral action and focuses on the generic elements of disaster risk management, including potential hazards, vulnerabilities of a population, and capacities across the health system.
Focusing on all elements of disaster risk management (all four phases of the disaster cycle, that is, mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery) allows us to consider how a wide range of activities associated with technology, development, governance, risk management, risk communication, and local capacity influence how we think about and approach disaster risk.
While the full analysis of the relation of the urban planning and earthquake hazard is beyond the scope of this study, it is important to re-emphasize that post-disaster provision of shelter, food, medical, and social services to people is among the key elements of disaster management and recovery plans.
The "Africanization" of disaster risk will not only increase local understandings of the endogenous and exogenous constitutive elements of disasters; it also has the potential both to inform the global DRR architecture and to challenge the ontological and epistemological assumptions that underpin knowledge of disaster worldwide.
Despite the clear recognition of this fact highlighted in the SFDRR Preamble (UNISDR 2015a, p. 9), the SFDRR is weaker on this point than its zero [Paragraph 31(a)] and pre-zero draft [Paragraph 16(d)] texts, both of which included more targeted provisions on preparing for and addressing displacement as a core element of disaster risk management (and more specifically recovery) efforts.
"Acknowledged" delivers true stories and real people, removing the element of disaster porn that all too often paints our perceptions of homelessness.
Fiscal preparedness for natural disasters and risk-sensitive public investment planning are increasingly seen as essential elements of natural disaster resilience (UNDP 2010; Michel-Kerjan et al. 2013; UNISDR 2013; AMCDRR 2014).
