Emergency Planning

JULY 5, 2019

Like any field of study, disaster risk reduction needs lateral thinking. It is a healthy sign in a field that draws upon more than 40 disciplines for its knowledge (Alexander 2013). Natural Hazards 86: 969-988. Sadly, a follow-the-herd mentality all too easily develops among researchers. References Alexander, D.E.

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Emergency Planning

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

In disaster risk reduction circles, there is an almost desperate reliance on 'community' and a strong growth in studies and plans to "involve the community" in facing up to risks and impacts (Berkes and Ross 2013). The challenge of the 21st century is to involve people and organisations in managing their own risks.

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Emergency Planning

MAY 14, 2024

Many researchers who have adopted the concept when trying to interpret disaster risk reduction have followed the work of Crawford Stanley "Buzz" Holling, as expressed in his 1973 paper (Holling 1973). Previously (Alexander 2013), I thought that Holling was wrong about resilience. However, this does not dispense with homeostasis.

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Emergency Planning

MAY 30, 2019

The United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction was born out of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, 1990-2000. On 1 May 2019 it was renamed the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. An example of this for the 2013 GAR can be found in Di Mauro (2014). GNCSODR 2015.

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Emergency Planning

JUNE 9, 2019

The study of disasters is a 'lateral discipline' that, to varying degrees embraces at least 42 other disciplines and professions (Alexander 2013). The next question is where to draw the boundaries in the study of disasters and practice of disaster risk reduction. For example, work by Marulana et al.

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Emergency Planning

MAY 27, 2019

Resilience and disaster risk reduction: an etymological journey. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 13(11): 2707-2716. DOI: 10.5194/nhess-13-2707-2013 Clayton, M. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 76(1): 38-49. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8306.1986.tb00102.x 1467-8306.1986.tb00102.x x Alexander, D.E.

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