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Commonlyperceiveddisastercauses.pdf

Commonly perceived disaster causes

Politics plays an ever-increasing role of actuality of disaster and use of the disaster nomenclature to accomplish a policy agenda or to deliver projects back to a congressional district. Disasters can be looked at as notice or no-notice events. There are those that have a long onset, such as drought, and those that occur instantaneously such as an earthquake. Either has a significant political and business interest that at times may create a perception of a disaster. There have been many studies that show the number of disasters has increased over time. Disasters can be a triggering event for desired policy change and are often exercises of blame and excuse management in the political and corporate realm. Disaster politics may at times play a greater determinant in the existence of a disaster than not.