CCEM Strategies

MAY 11, 2023

Flooding is one of the most common, pervasive, and costliest natural hazards in Canada , with a history of causing major disasters. By analyzing factors such as topography, hydrology, and historical flood data, flood risk assessments can help communities identify areas that are most vulnerable to flooding.

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CCEM Strategies

JANUARY 11, 2024

The impact of cold emergencies goes beyond discomfort. Especially vulnerable populations. In contrast, urban areas face their own set of challenges during cold emergencies. Understanding local risk profiles helps mitigate, prepare for, and respond to extreme cold emergencies.

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CCEM Strategies

JUNE 5, 2023

Summer is not without its share of hazards due to the hot weather. From storms triggering electrical outages to droughts and heat domes that can contribute to wildfires (which in turn can cause poor air quality), all these hazards have the potential to cause detrimental impacts to your organization.

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Emergency Planning

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Most of them are highly vulnerable to seismic forces. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 15: 931-945. Natural Hazards 109: 161-200. It is a mixture of simple errors, lax procedures, ignorance, deliberate evasion, indifference to public safety, untenable architectural fashions, corruption and failure to enforce the codes.

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CCEM Strategies

AUGUST 9, 2023

This can create very hazardous conditions, especially for vulnerable populations. The majority of those who lost their lives were part of a vulnerable population - older adults with compromised health who lived alone. Identify and support vulnerable populations. Develop response plans.

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Emergency Planning

JUNE 9, 2019

While not independent of the magnitude of physical forces involved, it is not linearly related to them because it depends on the nature and size of the vulnerabilities that the physical forces act upon. Warming has already begun to have a substantial effect on the magnitude and frequency of meteorological hazards. Krausmann, E.,

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Emergency Planning

AUGUST 20, 2021

A changing situation The eminent anthropologist Anthony Oliver-Smith argued [vi] that in Haiti colonialism has left an enduring legacy of vulnerability to disasters. In his words, "the colonial institutions’ assiduous extraction of surpluses left the population both destitute and vulnerable to hazards for centuries to come."

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Emergency Planning

MARCH 7, 2019

Myth 17: Unburied dead bodies constitute a health hazard. Reality: Not even advanced decomposition causes a significant health hazard. In addition, technology is a potential source of vulnerability as well as a means of reducing it. Myth 65: Children and young people are too vulnerable to be exposed to the effects of disaster.

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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. There are also areas that are not so popular with researchers, and one of these is emergency planning.

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Emergency Planning

JULY 29, 2019

For example, if people are poor and their lives are generally precarious, they cannot be made resilient against disasters such as floods and earthquakes unless the problem of vulnerability to life's exigencies in general is reduced.

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