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Also, disasters on the whole are becoming less deadly; however, the number of people dying as a result of technological disasters is rising (See Figure 1) (Coppola, 2011) FIGURE 1 Total number of people killed in technological disasters, 1900–2005. (From the International Disaster Database, www.em-dat.net; in Coppola, 2011) ................
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