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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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Book Review: Disaster and Emergency Management Methods

Recovery Diva

Key words: environmental governance, sustainability, resilience, climate risk, natural hazard, disaster risk reduction, building regulation. Overall, I commend the editor and authors of the text for providing a value-added resource for a variety of stakeholders including students and practitioners.

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Book Review: Constructing Risk

Recovery Diva

Reviewed by Donald Watson, editor of the website theOARSlist.com , Organizations Addressing Resilience and Sustainability, editor of Time-Saver Standards for Urban Design (McGraw-Hill 2001), and co-author with Michele Adams of Design for Flooding: Resilience to Climate Change (Wiley 2011). He has served as consultant for United Nations, U.S.

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Book Review: The Invention of Disaster

Recovery Diva

Author : JC Gaillard, Professor of Geography, University of Auckland, New Zealand. The book is part of Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change. For more information: [link]. The author also challenges the “inclusion” agenda of the Sendai and UN Climate Change frameworks. Series Editor: Ilan Kelman.

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Unlocking Climate Change Resilience Through Critical Event Management and Public Warning

everbridge

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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Artificial [Un]intelligence and Disaster Management

Emergency Planning

At the present time, perhaps the greatest potential of AI in disaster management is in its presumed ability to use its algorithms and data banks to provide synthesised information quicker than traditional methods can do so. One of the keys to this is the issue of trust in authority--or its absence. References Alexander, D.E.

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Four Questions About the Covid-19 Pandemic

Emergency Planning

Information on these characteristics takes a long time to assemble, as at the start the virus is new and unknown, its relationship with the host population is unknown and its ability to disseminate is also unknown. This means that coordination between national, regional and local authorities needs to be strong and extensive.

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