Recovery Diva
APRIL 12, 2023
This new book is the first released book (volume) of the four-volume series of Disaster and Emergency Management Case Studies in Adaptation and Innovation with three books forthcoming, each representing one of the four phases of disaster management (mitigation/prevention, preparedness, response, recovery). link] Contributors: Lucy A.
everbridge
AUGUST 26, 2021
In 2011, when extreme flooding crippled factories in Thailand, the country’s central bank estimated that the supply-chain disruptions lowered Thailand’s GDP growth rate by 76 percent, dropping it from the forecasted 4.1 The post How to Mitigate the Effects of Floods on Your Supply Chain appeared first on Everbridge.
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Emergency Planning
APRIL 24, 2022
It shows up failure to avoid provocation between states, failure to predict and mitigate conflict, failure to make sufficient progress in the transition away from dependency on fossil fuels, and failure to resolve disputes in the global arena. The Russian invasion of Ukraine is a cascading disaster with global ramifications.
Recovery Diva
MAY 12, 2022
Review by Donald Watson, co-author with Michele Adams of Design for Flooding: Resilience to Climate Change (Wiley 2011). Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management. Emerald Publishing Ltd. He has since served in over thirty nations worldwide as consultant for United Nations, U.S.
Emergency Planning
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Why RC buildings failed in the 2011 Van, Turkey, earthquakes: construction versus design practices. A view on how to mitigate earthquake damages in Turkey from a civil engineering perspective. Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities 31(3): Korkmaz, K.A. Earthquake disaster risk assessment and evaluation for Turkey.
Emergency Planning
NOVEMBER 1, 2023
At the other end of the scale, in the Tōhoku region of northeast Honshu, Japan, there are now 62 museums dedicated to the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear release. For better or worse, this is an area in which disaster tourism has come to stay.
Emergency Planning
AUGUST 22, 2019
In 2011, when I was approached by Elsevier about establishing the IJDRR, the first question was, "Is there a need for a new journal in this field?" Fortunately, there are some mitigating factors, for example, the lack of innovation in most published research. Two years ago, the journal published its first issue to contain 100 papers.
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