Learning from our vulnerabilities: Insights from Octavia E. Butler’s parable of the sower and West Sumatra’s 2024 flood disasters

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Issue		E3S Web Conf. Volume 604, 2025 The 4^th International Conference on Disaster Management (The 4^th ICDM 2024)


Article Number		02009
Number of page(s)		6
Section		Social, Economic, Cultural, Community and Local Wisdom Issues in Disaster Management
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202560402009
Published online		16 January 2025

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