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OUR CHALLENGE

Emergency Planning

Emergency planning excluded emergency planners and was put in the hands of a consortium of medical doctors and politicians, yet half the battle in a pandemic is to manage the logistical, social and economic consequences. Natural hazard impacts are becoming fiercer, more extensive and more frequent.

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Unlocking Climate Change Resilience Through Critical Event Management and Public Warning

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There has also been a rise in geophysical events including earthquakes and tsunamis which have killed more people than any of the other natural hazards under review in this report. 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 2019 Global Assessment Report (GAR)

Emergency Planning

The GAR proper consists of 15 chapters in four sections: introductory, the Sendai Framework (SFDRR), its implementation (and interaction with sustainable development), and managing risk nationally and locally. Unofficial voices have suggested that the 'cure to damage ratio' for natural hazards is 1:43. The 'should ratio'.

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Resilience is an illusion

Emergency Planning

This is not to denigrate the work of resilience managers, as there is obviously much to be done to reduce the risk and impact of adverse events. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 13(11): 2707-2716. After much pondering of the question, I have come to the conclusion that resilience is an illusion. Holling, C.S Manyena, B.

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

A more up-to-date rationale might state that "there is nothing more natural than human propensity to cause disasters." For example, business continuity management has a slightly different set of priorities which induces it to change the emphasis among triggering factors (Elliott et al. Disaster Prevention and Management 11(3): 209-213.

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The 1980 Southern Italian Earthquake After Forty Years

Emergency Planning

The year 1980 was something of a watershed in the field of disaster risk reduction (or disaster management as it was then known). It was clear that the US Government was influenced by the suffering and the shortcomings of the response to the tragedy as it built up its own capacity to respond to natural hazard impacts.

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Disaster Risk Reduction is not a Paradigm

Emergency Planning

Approaches to emergency management teaching at the Master's level. Journal of Emergency Management 13(1): 59-72. Natural Hazards 86: 969-988. My only reservation about this is that we may need the impact of a recognisable paradigm in order to gain the recognition that the field needs. Hagerstrand, T.