The Social, Institutional, and Human Context

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The Social, Institutional, and Human Context
Karen OBrien, University of Oslo, Norway IPCC
Scoping Meeting on Extreme Events and Disaster
Risk Reduction Oslo, Norway, March 23-26, 2009
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THE MISSING CHAPTER
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What is at stake?
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The Social Context
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The INSTITUTIONAL Context
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• Nature never deceives us it is we who
  deceive ourselves.
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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The HUMAN Context
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These are things that are really
happening (Fox 2002)
Photo John Huston
Photo Jon Barnett
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Time for a New Copenhagen Consensus?
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Climate Change Adaptation
Disaster Risk Reduction