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Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Emergency Planning

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). However,'community' is contentious concept (Barrios 2014). Hence, 'community' is about influence.

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Artificial [Un]intelligence and Disaster Management

Emergency Planning

The advent of social media came with a wave of optimism about their utility in reducing disaster risks and impacts (Alexander 2014). Come what may, emergency management is a human activity that requires human input and human reasoning. Social media in disaster risk reduction and crisis management. Galliano, D.A.,

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Audit Checklist for SOC 2

Reciprocity

Before 2014, cloud storage providers only had to meet SOC 1 (previously known as Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements no. The scope of your SOC 2 audit typically addresses infrastructure, software, data, risk management, procedures, and people. Risk assessment. Monitoring activities. Risk mitigation.

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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Emergency Planning

The change is achieved through apomediation (bypassing information gatekeepers), and control now rests in the information itself, and how it is served up to its consumers (Alexander 2014). Any attempt to relate the current anomie to disaster risk reduction (DRR) must take account of the 'egg hypothesis'. Alexander, D.E.