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Book Review: Constructing Risk

Recovery Diva

Helpful anecdotes are inserted throughout, balancing critical assessments where organizations and countries have not used available methods of risk assessment, and as a result, “…acting individually and through collective bodies, succeed neither in effective policy nor practice in reducing vulnerability of the built environment.” [p.

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Book Review: The Invention of Disaster

Recovery Diva

Book Review: The Invention of Disaster: Power of Knowledge in Discourses of Hazard and Vulnerability. The book is part of Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change. For more information: [link]. is a disaster risk management specialist, currently working for the Pacific Disaster Center (PDC Global).

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A Five-Minute Plea for Better Civil Protection

Emergency Planning

By and large, governments do not want to know about disaster risk reduction. It is simply naive to assume that if one gives governments scientific information they will act on it. Disaster risk reduction cannot be based on a narrow view of the problem. All vulnerability is contextual (see my writings on that).

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The 2019 Global Assessment Report (GAR)

Emergency Planning

The United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction was born out of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, 1990-2000. On 1 May 2019 it was renamed the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. Initiatives need to coalesce around "risk informed sustainable development".

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How to Define Objectives Under ISMS?

Reciprocity

In today’s digital age, protecting your organization’s information assets is paramount. An information security management system (ISMS) plays a crucial role in this endeavor, providing a structured approach to managing and protecting company information. How does an ISMS support risk management?

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How to Define Objectives Under ISMS?

Reciprocity

In today’s digital age, protecting your organization’s information assets is paramount. An information security management system (ISMS) plays a crucial role in this endeavor, providing a structured approach to managing and protecting company information. How does an ISMS support risk management?

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

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. The next question is where to draw the boundaries in the study of disasters and practice of disaster risk reduction.