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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. for paperback.,

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A Resilience Charter

Emergency Planning

Civil protection must be developed at the local authority level, coordinated regionally and harmonised nationally. The welfare function of disaster risk reduction must be defined by the central state and practised so that adverse impacts do not accentuate inequality in society and the burden of disaster is shared equitably.

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Artificial [Un]intelligence and Disaster Management

Emergency Planning

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. The challenge with social media is to find an efficient, effective, robust and reliable way of counteracting the effect of misinformation (or disinformation, if you prefer). Galliano, D.A.,

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The Role of GRC Software in FedRAMP Compliance: Essential Features and Benefits 

Reciprocity

Discover how ZenGRC’s comprehensive software can help you achieve and maintain FedRAMP authorization efficiently. Request a demo today.

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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. The author also challenges the “inclusion” agenda of the Sendai and UN Climate Change frameworks. Series Editor: Ilan Kelman. For more information: [link].

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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.