Emergency Planning

AUGUST 3, 2023

(a) As noted by the House of Lords Select Committee on Risk Assessment and Risk Planning (House of Lords 2021), the NRR is not very "user-friendly" and is not well-known. b) In terms of its methodology, the NRR discusses vulnerability but does not accept the premise (Hewitt 1983) that it is the major component of risk. (e)

All-Hazards 204

All-Hazards Natural Hazard Hazard Government 204

Emergency Planning

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

In 2021 a colleague who studies natural hazards wrote to me that "our institute is all but destroyed and colleagues have lost their homes". Powerful floods struck Puerto Lumbreras again in 2012. Europe is not well protected against flooding. Even in orderly, well-organised Germany its impact can be devastating.

All-Hazards 130

All-Hazards Natural Hazard Hazard Disaster Preparedness 130

Emergency Planning

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Most of them are highly vulnerable to seismic forces. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 15: 931-945. Korkmaz 2021. Natural Hazards 109: 161-200. Many, perhaps most, people in Turkey live in multi-storey, multiple occupancy reinforced concrete frame buildings. It is these that collapse. Ecemis, S.Z.

Natural Hazard 183

Natural Hazard All-Hazards Hazard Fashion 183

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

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