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. The 2019 report is accompanied by an executive summary called GAR Distilled. Linnerooth-Bayer (eds) 2019.

Risk Reduction 130

Risk Reduction Natural Hazard All-Hazards Hazard 130

Recovery Diva

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Helpful anecdotes are inserted throughout, balancing critical assessments where organizations and countries have not used available methods of risk assessment, and as a result, “…acting individually and through collective bodies, succeed neither in effective policy nor practice in reducing vulnerability of the built environment.” [p.

Risk Reduction 100

Risk Reduction All-Hazards Natural Hazard Hazard 100

Emergency Planning

JUNE 9, 2019

While not independent of the magnitude of physical forces involved, it is not linearly related to them because it depends on the nature and size of the vulnerabilities that the physical forces act upon. Na-techs' (natural-technological disasters) appear in this category (Krausmann et al. Necci 2019. UNDRR 2019.

Risk Reduction 130

Risk Reduction Natural Hazard All-Hazards Hazard 130

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

MAY 12, 2021

Many states categorize pandemics as having a low probability of occurring when compared to other natural hazards, but the current pandemic has shown the long term devastating social and economic consequences. In particular, COVID-19 has had disproportionate effects on low-income communities of color and front-line workers.

Hazard 64

Hazard Mitigation Pandemic Natural Hazard 64