Recovery Diva

MARCH 29, 2023

Since 2016, FEMA’s Natural Hazards Risk Assessment Program has collaborated with federal, local, and state government and private industry to help illustrate areas in the U.S. most at risk for 18 natural hazards. From the HSDL: FEMA Updates Its National Risk Index FEMA has recently updated its National Risk Index.

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Disaster Zone Podcast

JULY 20, 2021

Building for disaster resilience requires a concerted effort to build disaster resilient buildings with new building materials and siting buildings in the right location to limit the impact of natural hazards. He also touches on how equity and social justice can be applied to the construction of disaster resistant buildings.

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Emergency Planning

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 15: 931-945. Natural Hazards 109: 161-200. Select Bibliography of Sources on Turkish R/C Construction Practices Cogurcu, M.T. Construction and design defects in the residential buildings and observed earthquake damage types in Turkey. Ecemis, S.Z. Korkmaz, M.H. Arslan and H.H.

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Recovery Diva

JULY 27, 2022

“Natural hazards such as floods, droughts and heatwaves become disasters as a result of societal vulnerability, that is, a propensity of people, societies and ecosystems to be harmed. Often, people’s social, political and economic status determines the nature of differential and disproportionate impacts1.

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Recovery Diva

AUGUST 9, 2022

From Springer open access, this new article: The national risk index: establishing a nationwide baseline for natural hazard risk in the US.

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Crisis Response Journal

AUGUST 15, 2016

Truly committing to equity and inclusivity means providing disaster managers with the flexibility to behave in ways that are respectful of cultural differences across geographical settings, says Nnenia Campbell in a paper first published in Natural Hazard By Nnenia Campbell

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Emergency Planning

MAY 30, 2019

Unofficial voices have suggested that the 'cure to damage ratio' for natural hazards is 1:43. Global probabilistic assessment of risk from natural hazards for the Global Assessment Report 2013 (GAR13). At Risk: Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability and Disasters (2nd edition). The 'should ratio'.

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Emergency Planning

APRIL 24, 2022

It is obvious that military instability is likely to complicate and retard the process of getting natural hazard impacts under control. There has recently been a surge of research interest in disaster and conflict (ref).

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Recovery Diva

DECEMBER 1, 2023

For nearly 50 years, the Natural Hazards Center has played an especially important role in both advancing new disaster research and translating it for practitioners and policymakers.”

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Emergency Planning

MAY 14, 2024

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 13(11): 2707-2716. I recommend going back to vulnerability and endeavouring to identify, understand and reduce it. References Alexander, D.E. Resilience and disaster risk reduction: an etymological journey. Holling, C.S Resilience and stability of ecological systems. Manyena, B.

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Recovery Diva

DECEMBER 30, 2021

ASCE has generously compiled many of the important publications that has given many in the natural hazards research hope that perennial problems of catastrophic destruction of houses and other buildings by tornadoes can be eliminated: [link] These publications are freely available for access and download through 28 February 2022.

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Emergency Planning

JUNE 9, 2019

For example, counter-terrorism policy and policy against natural hazards can be quite different. Taxonomy can start with basic distinctions (natural, technological, social, intentional and composite) and then proceed to further divisions and subdivisions. Disasters 42(S2): S265-S286. Krausmann, E., Girgin and A. Necci 2019.

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Emergency Planning

MAY 27, 2019

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 13(11): 2707-2716. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 76(1): 38-49. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8306.1986.tb00102.x 1467-8306.1986.tb00102.x x Alexander, D.E. Resilience and disaster risk reduction: an etymological journey. DOI: 10.5194/nhess-13-2707-2013 Clayton, M.

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Recovery Diva

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

223] “Now populations around the globe again face a risk of catastrophic loss generated by human action—put simply, development-induced vulnerability to natural hazard events, including climate change and sea level rise. But this time governments and communities ought to manage the risk with an acceptable collective strategy.

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Recovery Diva

MAY 7, 2022

The author posits that the attempt to reduce disaster losses by bridging the “nature/hazard versus culture/vulnerability binary” by the Western governments in the lesser developed parts of the world has only been partially effective.

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Emergency Planning

JULY 5, 2019

Natural Hazards 86: 969-988. Journal of the International Association for M athematical Geology 8(6): 649-655. Ismail-Zadeh, A.T., Takeuchi and D. Paton 2017. Forging a paradigm shift in disaster science. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. first edition 1962). University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 222 pp. Meiland, J.W.

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Emergency Planning

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

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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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". Powerful floods struck Puerto Lumbreras again in 2012. Europe is not well protected against flooding. Even in orderly, well-organised Germany its impact can be devastating.

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Recovery Diva

MAY 12, 2022

Richard Krajeski, presented with transcribed commentary by a dozen participants of a special session held in his memory as part of the July 2020 Natural Hazard Workshop. The chapter is based on the writing of the late Rev.

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everbridge

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

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.

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everbridge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Natural hazards, public health emergencies, and other crises can strike at any moment, putting lives and livelihoods at risk. The Early Warnings for All Initiative, driven by the United Nations, recognizes this imperative and seeks to unite all stakeholders in building a safer world.

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everbridge

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Over the past few years, there has been an increase in the frequency of natural disasters and epidemics. According to the EM-DAT Emergency Event Database, there were 432 natural hazard-related incidents in 2021, compared to an average of 357 annual catastrophes for the period 2001-2020. billion in damages ( [link] ).

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Emergency Planning

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Yet, faced with natural hazards, relative isolation, economic deprivation and cultural decline, it badly needs social solidarity, and that is something it lacks. The current urban form was largely given to it by Norman invaders 940 years ago. It is an architectural paradise of which the inhabitants are, rightly, fiercely proud.

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National Center for Disaster Prepardness

MAY 12, 2021

Many states categorize pandemics as having a low probability of occurring when compared to other natural hazards, but the current pandemic has shown the long term devastating social and economic consequences. In particular, COVID-19 has had disproportionate effects on low-income communities of color and front-line workers.

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Plan B Consulting

APRIL 15, 2021

This style of planning was particularly prevalent in the USA, where they have a multitude of different natural hazards, which were addressed in business continuity plans. These could include plans for flooding, fires, tornadoes, disrupted transport links, and even an incident at a nearby nuclear plant.

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Plan B Consulting

APRIL 15, 2021

This style of planning was particularly prevalent in the USA, where they have a multitude of different natural hazards, which were addressed in business continuity plans. These could include plans for flooding, fires, tornadoes, disrupted transport links, and even an incident at a nearby nuclear plant.

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Resilience Fashion Transportation Continuity Planning 52

everbridge

MAY 13, 2022

As severe weather continues to threaten more people and cause greater harm, building resilience against natural hazards and climate threats is paramount: the time for governments and enterprises to act is now. By 2050, severe weather and climate-related events could displace 1.2 Severe Weather Trends.

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Recovery Diva

JUNE 30, 2022

Studies, Yale University and Lori Peek, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Natural. Hazards Research Center, University of Colorado Boulder. Authors: Kai Erikson, William R. Professor Emeritus of Sociology and American. Publisher: University of Texas Press Austin Texas. Hardcover Price $90.00.

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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.

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Plan B Consulting

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

My first lesson is about the number of natural hazards in the area. For the past week, I have been in the Caribbean delivering a series of business continuity workshops and I thought I would share some of the lessons I learned from my two trips to the area.

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Plan B Consulting

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

My first lesson is about the number of natural hazards in the area. For the past week, I have been in the Caribbean delivering a series of business continuity workshops and I thought I would share some of the lessons I learned from my two trips to the area.

Business Continuity 52

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