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One of the most important professional challenges facing those of us who wish to put our skills and knowledge to the great humanitarian field of disaster relief is to identify and eliminate that part of disaster mythology which is opposed to the best and most effective response we can make to mitigating human suffering arising from catastrophic situations.
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Alley, E.E. (1992). Overcoming the mythology of disaster. In: Masellis, M., Gunn, S. (eds) The Management of Mass Burn Casualties and Fire Disasters. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-585-33973-3_4
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