Emergency Planning

AUGUST 31, 2021

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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Emergency Planning

MAY 30, 2019

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

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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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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. The next question is where to draw the boundaries in the study of disasters and practice of disaster risk reduction.

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Risk Reduction Natural Hazard All-Hazards Hazard 130

Reciprocity

DECEMBER 20, 2024

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

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Audit Risk Reduction Authorization Alert 52

CCEM Strategies

JANUARY 10, 2024

For example: Risk assessments and emergency and business continuity plans now need to consider Indigenous knowledge, climate change, cultural safety, and impacts on vulnerable persons, animals, places or things. In alignment with UNDRIP and B.C.’s

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