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Resilience is an illusion

Emergency Planning

Hence, public discourse and concerns could conceivably change overnight (as they did in the USA after "Nine-Eleven" in 2001). Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 13(11): 2707-2716. Strong trends are complemented by instabilities that could tip regional and global systems into an entirely different phase. Holling, C.S

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Book Review: Constructing Risk

Recovery Diva

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). He has served as consultant for United Nations, U.S.

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Breakthrough Innovation to Help Overcome Today’s Public Safety Challenges

everbridge

Over the past few years, there has been an increase in the frequency of natural disasters and epidemics. According to the EM-DAT Emergency Event Database, there were 432 natural hazard-related incidents in 2021, compared to an average of 357 annual catastrophes for the period 2001-2020. billion in damages ( [link] ).

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