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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Emergency Planning

The former has been in widespread use since about 1993, and the latter since around 2009. Its antidotes are thought, reasoning, action, activism, and the application of ethics and morality. Journal of Emergency Management 8(6): 15-27. Social media in disaster risk reduction and crisis management. Bird et al.

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Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Emergency Planning

With regard to the last of these points, it is worth considering the criticisms of the concept of social capital, which is often used in conjunction with community-based DRR (Haynes 2009, Inaba 2013). In Florence, by contrast, there is a living, active concept of fiorentinesimo. Encyclopedia of Crisis Management.

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Crisis Support Teams – What are they & do I need one?

Plan B Consulting

Creating an effective crisis management team can be complex as you have to take many factors into consideration. In this bulletin, Charlie outlines his thoughts on creating a crisis support team, and what their functions and roles could be. Four years ago I started working on my PhD with the University of Glasgow.

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Crisis Support Teams – What are they & do I need one?

Plan B Consulting

Creating an effective crisis management team can be complex as you have to take many factors into consideration. In this bulletin, Charlie outlines his thoughts on creating a crisis support team, and what their functions and roles could be. Four years ago I started working on my PhD with the University of Glasgow.

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Crisis Support Teams – What are they & do I need one?

Plan B Consulting

Creating an effective crisis management team can be complex as you have to take many factors into consideration. In this bulletin, Charlie outlines his thoughts on creating a crisis support team, and what their functions and roles could be. Four years ago I started working on my PhD with the University of Glasgow.