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Resilience is an illusion

Emergency Planning

This is not to denigrate the work of resilience managers, as there is obviously much to be done to reduce the risk and impact of adverse events. Put bluntly, in disaster risk reduction, these days the goalposts are moving faster than the players. Resilience and disaster risk reduction: an etymological journey.

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Book Review: Constructing Risk

Recovery Diva

Reviewed by Donald Watson, editor of the website theOARSlist.com , Organizations Addressing Resilience and Sustainability, editor of Time-Saver Standards for Urban Design (McGraw-Hill 2001), and co-author with Michele Adams of Design for Flooding: Resilience to Climate Change (Wiley 2011). He has served as consultant for United Nations, U.S.