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Asia – Europa meeting (ASEM) on disaster risk reduction 

Crisis Response Journal

On September 14-15, a high level meeting on disaster risk reduction and management, with a specific focus on innovation and technology, was held in Danang, Vietnam, writes Ørjan Karlsson. This turned out to be an interesting meeting between academia and p By Ørjan Karlsson

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OUR CHALLENGE

Emergency Planning

It is also unrealistic to imagine that emerging technology in any of its forms will save us from disaster. Remember the words of Professor Henry Quarantelli in 1997: "Technology leads a double life, he wrote, that which its makers intended and that which they did not intend." The goal is ever receding.

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Artificial [Un]intelligence and Disaster Management

Emergency Planning

Perhaps technological innovation will one day bring this issue under control, but there is no sign of this at present. Social media in disaster risk reduction and crisis management. Secondly, it infringes copyright by misusing people's intellectual property in the training of its algorithms. References Alexander, D.E.

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A Five-Minute Plea for Better Civil Protection

Emergency Planning

In the light of climate change, technological risks and migration, we will soon need civil protection systems that are an order of magnitude more powerful than those that we have now. In this technological age, move from command-and-control to coordinate-and-collaborate. Society is grappling with powerful technological change.

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Resilience is an illusion

Emergency Planning

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. Put bluntly, in disaster risk reduction, these days the goalposts are moving faster than the players. Resilience and disaster risk reduction: an etymological journey.

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Unlocking Climate Change Resilience Through Critical Event Management and Public Warning

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trillion in global economic losses,” according to a report conducted by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR). Disaster risk is becoming systemic with one event overlapping and influencing another in ways that are testing our resilience to the limit,” Mizutori said. million lives, affecting 4.2

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A Proposed Strategy to Advocate for Improved Civil Protection in the United Kingdom

Emergency Planning

Increasing dependency on critical infrastructure makes the country ever more vulnerable to proliferating technological failure, whether it is caused by cyber attack, sabotage or natural forces. Disaster risk reduction: a Japanese women's perspective on 3/11. Japan Women's Network for Disaster Risk Reduction, Tokyo, 17 pp.