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Book Review: The Invention of Disaster

Recovery Diva

is a disaster risk management specialist, currently working for the Pacific Disaster Center (PDC Global). is a disaster risk management specialist, currently working for the Pacific Disaster Center (PDC Global). Reviewer: Irmak Renda-Tanali, D.Sc. Reviewer: Irmak Renda-Tanali, D.Sc.

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How to Define Objectives Under ISMS?

Reciprocity

This article explores how an ISMS supports risk management, its key elements, the main security objectives, and how to define and make your organization’s information security objectives both measurable and actionable. Lastly, we introduce ZenGRC as your comprehensive software solution for risk management and information security.

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How to Define Objectives Under ISMS?

Reciprocity

This article explores how an ISMS supports risk management, its key elements, the main security objectives, and how to define and make your organization’s information security objectives both measurable and actionable. Lastly, we introduce ZenGRC as your comprehensive software solution for risk management and information security.

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AI for Early Warning Systems and Anticipatory Action

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, 2017). Early Warning Systems (EWS) are a foundational component of disaster risk reduction (Reichstein 2025). Climate Risk Management, 34, 100375. link] United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR). Accessed 22 April 2025.

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

The next question is where to draw the boundaries in the study of disasters and practice of disaster risk reduction. Migration could conceivably be the result of major disasters, not merely of climate trends (as they affect the carrying capacity of areas of land) and of conflict, oppression and political hostility.

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Four Questions About the Covid-19 Pandemic

Emergency Planning

Hospitals need to develop very substantial surge capacity and greatly increase their infection control measures. When hospital capacity is absorbed by large influxes of people suffering from Covid, the tendency is to defer treatment of patients with other illnesses. Can we draw on expertise in the field of disaster risk management?

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