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Risk and post-disaster reconstruction of Lac Mégantic

Risk and post-disaster reconstruction of Lac Mégantic

The megadisaster of Lac-Mégantic offers important lessons on how disasters and recovery are negotiated within local capacities  and contingencies of smaller towns. Born and raised in Nantes, a rural community in Quebec where the catastrophic train disaster happened in 2013, Professor Liette Gilbert, is very familiar with the case and the region. She then started to

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