Emergency Planning

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

In 2021 a colleague who studies natural hazards wrote to me that "our institute is all but destroyed and colleagues have lost their homes". Each new disaster reveals the shortcomings of hazard mitigation and disaster preparedness. Powerful floods struck Puerto Lumbreras again in 2012.

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National Center for Disaster Prepardness

MAY 12, 2021

Thus, identifying and planning for the risks of potential disasters, such as a pandemic, is the first step to ensuring that communities and regions are prepared for them. Although each hazard mitigation plan is approved by FEMA, each state widely varies in how thoroughly it includes pandemic risk assessment and strategy in the plan.

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Emergency Planning

MAY 30, 2019

UNDRR has a recurrent initiative for assessing the state of disaster preparedness around the world, and this results in a document, the Global Assessment Report (GAR), which is issued biennially to coincide with the UN's Global Platform on DRR. International Journal for Disaster Risk Reduction 10(B): 403-502. GNCSODR 2015.

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