Contemporary Disaster Review An Online International Journal (CDR) is hosted by the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Millersville University of Pennsylvania, USA. It is a peer reviewed scholarly journal that is freely available to researchers, practitioners, media personnel, as well as the general public. Everyone is invited to link, cite, print, photocopy and distribute material from the CDR.

We accept submissions on a continuous basis. Please see the Submission Guidelines page for more information. The IRCD does require authors to be (or become) members of the IRCD. Please see the IRCD Membership InfoForm page for information and application link.

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