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DRI Updates Commitment to Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction

DRI Drive

. “The Sendai Framework created a shift from managing disasters to managing risks. For this purpose, it underlines the need to build the knowledge of government […]. The post DRI Updates Commitment to Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction appeared first on DRI Drive.

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The first anniversary of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 

Crisis Response Journal

Today (March 18, 2016) the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR) is celebrating its first birthday. The Sendai Framework was the first 2030 development agreement adopted by governments at the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduc

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OUR CHALLENGE

Emergency Planning

Note, first, that in a disaster a government cannot help but spend money on it, and copiously; secondly that good planning and wise investments can avoid enormous losses and casualties; thirdly, that what I have just recounted is true for most other kinds of major disaster; and fourthly that we face bigger, more spectacular events in the future.

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A Resilience Charter

Emergency Planning

The central government must ensure that resources are adequate to respond to the kinds and levels of emergency that are envisaged in planning scenarios. The central government must ensure that resources are adequate to respond to the kinds and levels of emergency that are envisaged in planning scenarios. The citizen 4.1

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A Five-Minute Plea for Better Civil Protection

Emergency Planning

Governments have not woken up to the fact that it is now a significantly more intense phenomenon than it was in previous decades. Governments tend to plan for past disasters, not future ones. By and large, governments do not want to know about disaster risk reduction. They will continue to do so.

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Book Review: Disaster and Emergency Management Methods

Recovery Diva

Key words: environmental governance, sustainability, resilience, climate risk, natural hazard, disaster risk reduction, building regulation. ISBN-hardcover: 978 0 367 42398 8 ISBN-electronic: 978 0 367 82394 8; Pages: 381; on-line price $52.95 for paperback., for hardback, $42.36 for etext USD.

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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.