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These are some of the questions you asked Valérie November:
1- Do risk management programmes reduce the impact of disasters?
2- Do we need to adopt a “disaster-readiness attitude”?
Risk Management
We tend to view disaster as an exceptional natural or technical event that interrupt “normal” development but in reality a wide variety of factors may increase the risk of a disaster. Geographer Valérie November is one of our experts on disasters. She works on the spaces and times of risk and conducts analysis on the whole chain of risk: from risk reduction, to preparedness and risk management.
Valérie November has written several books on risk management in cases of natural disasters such as flooding or technological disasters as black-outs, and in general, on urban risks.
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Does the media influence our view of climate change?- Will recent disasters inspire new movies?
- Are some countries more disaster-prone than others?
- Was the H1N1 pandemic invented by drugs companies?
- Is visiting disaster sites a way of healing the pain?
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- Are there invisible disasters?
- Are politicians controlled by banks?
- Can we predict a disaster?
