Can Sustainable Development Sustain Us?
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2001
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Disaster Research Center
Abstract
This paper presents a review of Disasters by Design,
the recent, influential second U.S. national assessment of
research on natural and technological hazards that takes
stock of the disciplinary knowledge and policy issues in
the field of disasters. It identifies four analytical
matters left unresolved in its central theme on the
importance of sustainable development for disaster
mitigation, having to do with the dual emphasis on the
local and on the global, cultural change, the implicit
assumptions that planners and social engineers know best,
and the consensual model of politics. It also identifies
some practical problems that the adoption of a sustainable
development framework advocated by the report may pose for
the specialty.
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Sustainable development, Natural Hazard, Technological Hazard