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A Five-Minute Plea for Better Civil Protection

Emergency Planning

What makes the present day different is that, for many kinds of disaster, recurrence intervals have shortened drastically. By and large, governments do not want to know about disaster risk reduction. Disaster risk reduction cannot be based on a narrow view of the problem. They will continue to do so.

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A Resilience Charter

Emergency Planning

The increasing vulnerability and dwindling redundancy of life-support systems will aggravate the effect of proliferating failure among critical infrastructure networks. Volunteer work should be encouraged in disaster risk reduction and kindred fields. Preamble 1.1 Unplanned mass migrations will occur. The citizen 4.1

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The 2019 Global Assessment Report (GAR)

Emergency Planning

The United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction was born out of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, 1990-2000. On 1 May 2019 it was renamed the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. International Journal for Disaster Risk Reduction 10(B): 403-502. GNCSODR 2015.

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Book Review: The Invention of Disaster

Recovery Diva

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. is a disaster risk management specialist, currently working for the Pacific Disaster Center (PDC Global). Series Editor: Ilan Kelman.

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The Role of GRC Software in FedRAMP Compliance: Essential Features and Benefits 

Reciprocity

Let’s explore how the right GRC solution can streamline your FedRAMP compliance journey.

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Book Review: Constructing Risk

Recovery Diva

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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Why Martyn’s Law is critical for the future of public safety

everbridge

The Act prioritizes prevention and preparedness, holding those responsible for public-facing venues and events accountable for reducing security vulnerabilities. How the Act safeguards the public Martyns Law introduces a tiered framework based on the number of people present at a venue or event.