CRITERIA FOR THE DESIGN OF HAZARD MITIGATION INSTITUTIONS Edmund Penning-Rowsell Natural hazards and human expectations

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CRITERIA FOR THE DESIGN OF HAZARD MITIGATION INSTITUTIONS Edmund Penning-Rowsell Natural hazards and human expectations

ABSTRACT

Because the public no longer sees natural hazards simply as “Acts of God”, they are demanding that society and government, rather than the Almighty, protect them from their effects. Accidents as such no longer exist: someone is to blame.