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OUR CHALLENGE

Emergency Planning

Resilience is an illusion. In saying that I mean no disrespect to resilience officers, whose work is honourable, vital and necessary. However, whether resilience has as its goal to 'bounce back' or to 'bounce forward', it represents a tendency to seek homeostasis, in other words a quest for an eventual stable equilibrium.

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Implementing the HFA at a local level in Europe: Towards the Post-2015 Framework 

Crisis Response Journal

Patrícia Pires provides an overview local level resilience in Europe, and how priorities set under the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015 should be continued and evolve in the future. By Patrícia Pires

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The 2019 Global Assessment Report (GAR)

Emergency Planning

One of the most intransigent problems with the predecessor of the Sendai Framework, Hyogo Framework for Action, 2005-2015, was its resolute reliance on a 'top-down' approach. Recommendations for a Post-2015 Disaster Risk Reduction Framework to Strengthen the Resilience of Communities to All Hazards. UNISDR 2005. GNCSODR 2015.

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Crises On The Rise: 5 Focus Areas For Greater Resilience

everbridge

It also begs the question, where should resilience professionals focus? By examining specific trends, we can gain a better understanding of the current environment to formulate actions that strengthen our resilience both for today and tomorrow. So where do organizations focus?

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Covid-19: An Address

Emergency Planning

Cyclone Nargis devastated Myanmar and killed 136,000 of its citizens, in part because they had no role in creating resilience against such an event. The coup de grâce was the response to Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. It is a pity, as the United States have lost the lead in this field–if they ever had it.

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A Chat with Boon Edam’s Valerie Currin

Security Industry Association

Actually, my career started with a company Boon Edam acquired in 2005 – it was another physical security entrance company that was a manufacturer of security turnstiles. Obviously, there were some challenges that I didn’t anticipate in my first couple of years, but it’s been great to see how resilience shows up in times of crisis.

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You’re on your own mate………….

Plan B Consulting

My first point is that people need to be responsible for themselves and make sure they have some personal resilience. I was also asked whether the power company should have anticipated the incident and provided better resilience within the power grid. My point on this is that a different area always seems to be hit by these storms.

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