Emergency Planning

MAY 14, 2024

After much pondering of the question, I have come to the conclusion that resilience is an illusion. This is not to denigrate the work of resilience managers, as there is obviously much to be done to reduce the risk and impact of adverse events. However, the concept of resilience is, I think, suspect. What can we do instead?

Resilience 130

Resilience Risk Reduction Natural Hazard All-Hazards 130

Emergency Planning

AUGUST 3, 2023

b) In terms of its methodology, the NRR discusses vulnerability but does not accept the premise (Hewitt 1983) that it is the major component of risk. Hence, the risk register largely discusses hazards and threats, not risks sensu stricto. (e) One of these is the National Resilience Framework (HM Government 2022). HL Paper no.

All-Hazards 204

All-Hazards Natural Hazard Hazard Government 204

Recovery Diva

DECEMBER 1, 2023

An excerpt: “Among the research topics that could support the agency’s resilience goals are work related to climate migration, risk communication and refining social vulnerability indices.

Hazard 100

Hazard Natural Hazard Vulnerability Communications 100

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". Some 140 academic journals carry scientific and social scientific papers on hazards, risks, disasters and resilience. Powerful floods struck Puerto Lumbreras again in 2012.

All-Hazards 130

All-Hazards Natural Hazard Hazard Disaster Preparedness 130

Recovery Diva

MAY 7, 2022

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. Labeling certain groups as vulnerable justifies the intervention of outside actors (i.e. Series Editor: Ilan Kelman.

Risk Reduction 113

Risk Reduction Hazard Natural Hazard Vulnerability 113

Recovery Diva

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Reviewed by Donald Watson, editor of the website theOARSlist.com , Organizations Addressing Resilience and Sustainability, editor of Time-Saver Standards for Urban Design (McGraw-Hill 2001), and co-author with Michele Adams of Design for Flooding: Resilience to Climate Change (Wiley 2011).

Risk Reduction 100

Risk Reduction All-Hazards Natural Hazard Hazard 100

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). Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities. GNCSODR 2015.

Risk Reduction 130

Risk Reduction Natural Hazard All-Hazards Hazard 130