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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Risk Reduction Natural Hazard All-Hazards Hazard 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

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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Risk Reduction All-Hazards Natural Hazard Hazard 100

Emergency Planning

JUNE 9, 2019

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. For example, counter-terrorism policy and policy against natural hazards can be quite different. Krausmann, E.,

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Risk Reduction Natural Hazard All-Hazards Hazard 130

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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Natural Hazard All-Hazards Hazard Activation 78

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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Hazard Mitigation Pandemic Natural Hazard 64

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. already set by the degree of vulnerability and marginalization existing in disaster-impacted communities. Authors: Kai Erikson, William R. Hardcover Price $90.00.

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Media Natural Hazard Authorization Vulnerability 100

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. By analyzing factors such as topography, hydrology, and historical flood data, flood risk assessments can help communities identify areas that are most vulnerable to flooding.

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All-Hazards Hazard Natural Hazard Transportation 52

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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All-Hazards Natural Hazard Hazard Disaster Preparedness 130