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Book Review: Case Studies in Disaster Recovery

Recovery Diva

Keywords: disaster recovery, adaptation, innovation, resiliency, case studies, Reviewer : Irmak Renda-Tanali, D.Sc. Early recovery must balance the speed of returning to normalcy with long-term goals that promote resilience. Neely, Liliya Kasatkina Quebedeaux, Erin Rider, Samuel J.B.

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The 2019 Global Assessment Report (GAR)

Emergency Planning

Unofficial voices have suggested that the 'cure to damage ratio' for natural hazards is 1:43. In putting individuals at the centre of a diagram of actions we see people either crushed between the rock of hazards and the hard place of risk-informed sustainable development or as protagonists in combatting the former with the latter.

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Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Emergency Planning

Yet, faced with natural hazards, relative isolation, economic deprivation and cultural decline, it badly needs social solidarity, and that is something it lacks. Several arguments can be marshalled against the idea of community resilience:- The concept of 'community' has no inherent geographical scale.

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Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

Emergency Planning

This was in 2010, shortly after Haiti had been prostrated by a magnitude 7 earthquake. The 2010 earthquake occurred after yet another period of instability, which the United Nations Peacekeeping mission (MINUSTAH) had striven to bring to an end. As bodies piled up on street corners and in courtyards there was no time to count them all.

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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Emergency Planning

However, by the Haiti earthquake of 2010, a different picture had become to emerge and establish itself (Alexander 2010). The tendency in research and policy advice is to assume that everyone in power has a strong desire to reduce hazards and threats. Early views of the Internet and disasters (e.g. References Alexander, D.E.

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Business Continuity in the Caribbean

Plan B Consulting

My first lesson is about the number of natural hazards in the area. Earthquakes – Probably the most well-known is the earthquake which hit Haiti on 12th January 2010, affecting 3 million people and killing an estimated 100,000 to 160,000. It is lucky that the people are resilient and ‘just get on with it’ after a disaster.

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Business Continuity in the Caribbean

Plan B Consulting

My first lesson is about the number of natural hazards in the area. Earthquakes – Probably the most well-known is the earthquake which hit Haiti on 12th January 2010, affecting 3 million people and killing an estimated 100,000 to 160,000. It is lucky that the people are resilient and ‘just get on with it’ after a disaster.