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Now that we have looked briefly at the underlying risk factors for disasters and have set out the overall terrain of our discussion, it is time to take a closer look at specific topics so that, ultimately, we can see how they interact with and support one another. The first topic is the social construction of disaster risk.
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Gordy, M. (2016). The Social Construction of Risk. In: Disaster Risk Reduction and the Global System. SpringerBriefs in Climate Studies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41667-0_3
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