Emergency Planning
AUGUST 3, 2023
The new version presents 89 major hazards and threats that could potentially disrupt life in the United Kingdom and possibly cause casualties and damage. It explains its own rationale and presents the 89 'risks' one by one. The 2023 NRR is clear and concise.
Emergency Planning
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Many of the news media that have reported the disaster have presented it as the result of inescapable terrestrial forces. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 15: 931-945. Natural Hazards 109: 161-200. While that cannot be negated, it is less than half of the story. Ecemis, S.Z. Korkmaz, M.H. Arslan and H.H.
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Emergency Planning
MARCH 3, 2025
There have recently been some natural hazard events of extraordinary size and power, but they are no more than curtain raisers. Natural hazard impacts are becoming fiercer, more extensive and more frequent. These root causes are also well documented. This is now our challenge.
Emergency Planning
MAY 30, 2019
Unofficial voices have suggested that the 'cure to damage ratio' for natural hazards is 1:43. Consequently, the greatest present-day challenge is to achieve change from the local level against rigid power structures and massive vested interests at the national and globalised levels. For the sake of survival, it must be done.
Emergency Planning
JUNE 9, 2019
I suggest the following five:- (a) Natural disasters, caused by extreme natural events. Floods, storms and earthquakes dominate the picture, with the ever-present possibility of very large eruptions or extra-terrestrial impacts. (b) For example, counter-terrorism policy and policy against natural hazards can be quite different.
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.
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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