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Storm over San Isidro: "Civic Community" and Disaster Risk Reduction in the Nineteenth Century Philippines (2012)
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Bankoff, G. (2012). Storm over San Isidro: "Civic Community" and Disaster Risk Reduction in the Nineteenth Century Philippines. Journal of historical sociology, 25(3), 331-351. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6443.2012.01422.x

Using a detailed archival account of a typhoon?induced flood, this paper examines Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) as practised in a late nineteenth century provincial town in the Philippines. Culture is an important determinant when considering DRR for... Read More about Storm over San Isidro: "Civic Community" and Disaster Risk Reduction in the Nineteenth Century Philippines.