Emergency Planning

APRIL 24, 2022

A principle of cascading disasters is that the world is ever more closely linked by networks on which we all depend for communications, commerce, enlightenment and entertainment. The cascade is a result of the progression of a shock through different kinds of vulnerability. References Fukuyama, F. Energy Policy 61: 822-828.

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Emergency Planning

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Powerful floods struck Puerto Lumbreras again in 2012. In 2021 a colleague who studies natural hazards wrote to me that "our institute is all but destroyed and colleagues have lost their homes". Each new disaster reveals the shortcomings of hazard mitigation and disaster preparedness. Why has this not solved the problem?

All-Hazards 130

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National Center for Disaster Prepardness

JANUARY 19, 2022

At the same time, we see widening inequalities in who has access to recovery resources, and disparities in vulnerability that are too often predictable by socioeconomic status, race and ethnicity. Amidst all of this, we are overly dependent on a shadow budget for disaster response and relief that no one is planning.

Pandemic 52

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Reciprocity

AUGUST 24, 2022

Are there differences at all? Not long ago, risk managers concerned themselves mainly with hazards such as fires and floods; or in the financial sector, loan defaults (credit risk). 2007-2012): Audit management, enterprise, and operational risk management, compliance beyond financial controls, and more. Which is best?

Risk Management 52

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Emergency Planning

AUGUST 20, 2021

As bodies piled up on street corners and in courtyards there was no time to count them all. A changing situation The eminent anthropologist Anthony Oliver-Smith argued [vi] that in Haiti colonialism has left an enduring legacy of vulnerability to disasters. Haiti has long had a shortage of all three. ii] Farmer, Paul 2012.

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Emergency Planning

JULY 29, 2019

2012) found that the negative aspects, such as the diffusion of unfounded rumour, were self-correcting. Vast resources are now devoted to distorting the picture, and all three superpowers are busy utilising them (Druzin and Gordon 2018, Merrin 2019, Rudick and Dannels 2019). Haynes 2012. Early views of social media (e.g.

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