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Unlocking Climate Change Resilience Through Critical Event Management and Public Warning

everbridge

“The odds are being stacked against us when we fail to act on science and early warnings to invest in prevention, climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction.”. This is what, in the climate environment, the World Meteorological Organization and Disaster Management Agencies at national Government levels are doing.

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The 1980 Southern Italian Earthquake After Forty Years

Emergency Planning

It is salutary to reflect that many of those scholars who have studied this disaster are too young to have experienced it. The year 1980 was something of a watershed in the field of disaster risk reduction (or disaster management as it was then known). For the local economy, all was not lost, or not quite all.

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

CCEM Strategies

s new Emergency and Disaster Management Act (EDMA) was passed, replacing the previous Emergency Program Act. With this new legislation comes substantial new requirements for community emergency managers – many relating to Indigenous engagement. In alignment with UNDRIP and B.C.’s

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The Hidden Costs of Ransomware

Plan B Consulting

I did my PhD in Emergency Planning and Disaster Management at the University of Hertfordshire; therefore, it is the latest in a long line of universities that caught my eye. The government gave Redcar and Cleveland Council £3.68m to cover the cost of their cyber incident, although they claim it cost them around £10m.

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The Hidden Costs of Ransomware

Plan B Consulting

I did my PhD in Emergency Planning and Disaster Management at the University of Hertfordshire; therefore, it is the latest in a long line of universities that caught my eye. The government gave Redcar and Cleveland Council £3.68m to cover the cost of their cyber incident, although they claim it cost them around £10m.

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Common Misconceptions about Disaster

Emergency Planning

Myth 14: Martial law must be imposed after disaster in order to stop society from breaking down altogether. Reality: The imposition of martial law after disaster is extremely rare and implies that normal mechanisms of government were never effective in any way. Myth 46: Disasters always happen to someone else.