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A Resilience Charter

Emergency Planning

National standards should be developed to ensure that emergency plans are functional and compatible with one another, and that they ensure the interoperability of emergency services and functions. All levels of public administration should be required to produce emergency plans and maintain them by means of periodic updates.

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Artificial [Un]intelligence and Disaster Management

Emergency Planning

One of these is emergency planning, the process of anticipating needs caused by disaster impacts and making arrangements to satisfy them as well as possible with available resources. One of the keys to this is the issue of trust in authority--or its absence. Social media in disaster risk reduction and crisis management.

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Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Emergency Planning

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). The intentions are laudable, as DRR needs to be democratised if it is to function.

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Unlocking Climate Change Resilience Through Critical Event Management and Public Warning

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trillion in global economic losses,” according to a report conducted by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR). Disaster risk is becoming systemic with one event overlapping and influencing another in ways that are testing our resilience to the limit,” Mizutori said. million lives, affecting 4.2

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

Emergency Planning

Mami Mizotori, the Head of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) stated in the mid-term report of the Sendai Framework that "progress [in implementing the SFDRR] has stalled and, in some cases, reversed". For years, local authorities have been starved of funds and resources. The local level. Ohara and H.

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Is it Possible to Keep Up with the Literature?

Emergency Planning

I am the founding editor of the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (IJDRR), which began publishing in August 2012 with just four papers. I am amazed at how many authors submit work and do not even seem to have spent those vital two minutes putting the basic key words into Google Scholar.

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Community Emergency Managers: Maximize Impact with B.C.’s New Indigenous Engagement Funding

CCEM Strategies

A long-term funding and capacity building framework is still needed to support First Nations and local authorities in meeting the new EDMA requirements. It has been criticized in the past for incentivizing short-term spending on distinct program elements like equipment, training, and route planning. The team at CCEM can help.