2012 Hazard Resilience 
BCP Builder
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Business Continuity as part of an overall Operational Resilience program is the mitigation of risk. A modern 24/7 business cannot tolerate interruption and therefore looks for its resilience teams to prepare for the high risk scenarios which could occur. This allows them to proactively develop pragmatic strategies to mitigate the risk.
National Center for Disaster Prepardness
JANUARY 19, 2022
Expansion of pre-disaster mitigation funding such as through the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program, and new funding for infrastructure resilience embedded in the bi-partisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act are also steps in the right direction. 90 programs across 20 agencies is simply too many.
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Emergency Planning
AUGUST 20, 2021
In his words, "the colonial institutions’ assiduous extraction of surpluses left the population both destitute and vulnerable to hazards for centuries to come." Nevertheless, battered by earthquakes, storms, floods and landslides it has by necessity proved to be country full of remarkably resilient people. ii] Farmer, Paul 2012.
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?
Emergency Planning
JULY 29, 2019
2012) found that the negative aspects, such as the diffusion of unfounded rumour, were self-correcting. For example, if people are poor and their lives are generally precarious, they cannot be made resilient against disasters such as floods and earthquakes unless the problem of vulnerability to life's exigencies in general is reduced.
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