Emergency Planning

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The advent of social media came with a wave of optimism about their utility in reducing disaster risks and impacts (Alexander 2014). Social media in disaster risk reduction and crisis management. European Crisis Management Laboratory, Disaster Management Unit JRC E.1, Galliano, D.A.,

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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). However,'community' is contentious concept (Barrios 2014). Encyclopedia of Crisis Management.

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Emergency Planning

JULY 29, 2019

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.

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