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OUR CHALLENGE

Emergency Planning

It is fully documented in many reliable publications. In Europe we have lived since February 2022 on a knife edge concerning the risk that the continent be overwhelmed by lethal toxicity.* These root causes are also well documented. Natural hazard impacts are becoming fiercer, more extensive and more frequent.

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The 2019 Global Assessment Report (GAR)

Emergency Planning

On 1 May 2019 it was renamed the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. UNDRR has a recurrent initiative for assessing the state of disaster preparedness around the world, and this results in a document, the Global Assessment Report (GAR), which is issued biennially to coincide with the UN's Global Platform on DRR.

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Book Review: Constructing Risk

Recovery Diva

These statements document incremental progress to recognizing the principal message and caution of this book, that our development practices—the ways we build on the land—too often resulting in increasing risk of disaster, when they could and should be doing the opposite, reducing risk to natural disaster, climate change and sea level rise.

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A Proposed Strategy to Advocate for Improved Civil Protection in the United Kingdom

Emergency Planning

The lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic, alas largely negative, show that a good civilian system designed to protect the public against major hazards and threats can save thousands of lives and billions in losses and wasted expenditure. 1] The best solution to this problem is to promote inclusiveness in emergency preparedness at all levels.

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ISO 27001 Certification Requirements & Standards

Reciprocity

Within the ISO 27001 family, there are many other vital documents. They include: ISO 27005: Information security risk management these standard guides companies that are maturing their ISMS and controls programs. Analyzing risks. Evaluating risks. Choosing risk-reduction treatments. Staff Training.

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