Understanding Business
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Author: William Nickels
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Elaborate each of the following in two pages each :Vulnerability through land-use practice,Environmental degradation,Unequal distribution of risk,Inadequate preparedness and Technological failures are reasons why disasters are not natural but anthropogenic in causation
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