Disaster Planning
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1. Potential future disasters that could be created based upon current world conditions include increased severity of hurricanes and floods, potentially on account of changing climate conditions. Such disasters can be amplified in their effects because of policy priorities. Poor attention to enforcing building codes and creating usable transportation options in all countries are not expanding the terrible problems of responding not just to the current earthquake in Pakistan but to similar disasters in countries that have bad infrastructure because they have such strong corruption (Thompson & Fathi, 2000), with the result that casualties are in the tens of thousands. Thus in nonindustrialized countries the potential for disaster is increased.Another potential future disaster could be created--whether by nature or by man--because the wrong kind of planning goes into preparing for it. Auf der Heide criticizes planners who "prepare for t
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