Emergency Planning

MARCH 3, 2025

Resilience is an illusion. In saying that I mean no disrespect to resilience officers, whose work is honourable, vital and necessary. However, whether resilience has as its goal to 'bounce back' or to 'bounce forward', it represents a tendency to seek homeostasis, in other words a quest for an eventual stable equilibrium.

All-Hazards 130

All-Hazards Natural Hazard Hazard Risk Reduction 130

everbridge

AUGUST 26, 2021

percent as a result of the floods, according to estimates by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. With extreme weather events like flash floods on the rise, companies are focusing more closely not just on the resiliency of their supply chains but on how agile their responses might be. Study risks in real time.

Mitigation 52

Mitigation Logistics Risk Reduction Retail 52

Emergency Planning

MARCH 7, 2019

As the transport and operation of field hospitals tends to be expensive and logistically challenging, in some cases it may be more efficient to attempt to restore or augment existing hospitals in the area, even if they are significantly damaged. Myth 59: Cost-benefit data will convince decision makers to invest in disaster risk reduction.

Hospitality 130

Hospitality All-Hazards Risk Reduction Logistics 130