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Disaster Risk Reduction is not a Paradigm

Emergency Planning

This severely limited the applicability of the theory. Like any field of study, disaster risk reduction needs lateral thinking. Natural Hazards 86: 969-988. It was instead a mathematical interpretation of discontinuities (singularities) in state space. The residual question is how to liberate and encourage creativity.

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Book Review: Disaster and Emergency Management Methods

Recovery Diva

Disaster and Emergency Management Methods; Social Science Approaches in Application by Jason Rivera. Key words: environmental governance, sustainability, resilience, climate risk, natural hazard, disaster risk reduction, building regulation. Publisher: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York and London.

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CRAIG 1300™ State Trailblazer Helps Improve Community Risk Reduction Programs

National Fire Protection Association

If you want to make your state a safer place through community risk reduction (CRR) but struggle with the time and resources to take a new community risk assessment (CRA) project, CRAIG 1300 is the cutting-edge tool to help you do it. Community Risk Reduction (CRR) Through Community Risk Assessment (CRA).

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ISO 27001 Certification Requirements & Standards

Reciprocity

Doing this right is critical because a scope that is too large will increase the project’s time and expense, and a scope that is too narrow may expose your firm to unanticipated hazards. Risk assessments are at the heart of every ISMS and include five critical components: Putting in place a risk management framework.

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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Emergency Planning

Any attempt to relate the current anomie to disaster risk reduction (DRR) must take account of the 'egg hypothesis'. Its antidotes are thought, reasoning, action, activism, and the application of ethics and morality. In modern disaster risk reduction, problem solvers abound. Alexander, D.E.