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Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Emergency Planning

However,'community' is contentious concept (Barrios 2014). Several arguments can be marshalled against the idea of community resilience:- The concept of 'community' has no inherent geographical scale. At its most benign, it is about relative influence (Barrios 2014). But how does this translate into community resilience?

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New Quadrennial Review

Recovery Diva

The Department of Homeland Security has released the Third Quadrennial Homeland Security Review (QHSR), a continuation of the first two QHSR Reports issued in 2010 and 2014. Third Quadrennial Homeland Security Review. In addition to keeping the first five mission statements relevant, this third QHSR review introduces a new mission.

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RIMS ERM Conference 2021: IRS Receives Global Enterprise Risk Management Award of Distinction

Risk Management Monitor

Since IRS established its ERM program in 2014, it has played a critical role in helping the agency to better understand and respond to risk, thus making the organization more resilient and better able to serve the American people.”.

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18/06/2014 Dealing with mass fatalities

Plan B Consulting

Recently I went to an excellent seminar in Dundee organised by the Tayside Local Resilience Partnership titled “Managing responders needs during a mass fatalities incident”. The post 18/06/2014 Dealing with mass fatalities appeared first on PlanB Consulting. This week Charlie Maclean-Bristol discusses mass fatalities.

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18/06/2014 Dealing with mass fatalities

Plan B Consulting

Recently I went to an excellent seminar in Dundee organised by the Tayside Local Resilience Partnership titled “Managing responders needs during a mass fatalities incident”. The post 18/06/2014 Dealing with mass fatalities appeared first on PlanB Consulting. This week Charlie Maclean-Bristol discusses mass fatalities.

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Pure Storage Now a 10X Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ Leader for Primary Storage

Pure Storage

Today, that same FlashArray from 2014 has 10 times its original storage capacity in just three rack units. This Year, 10 Is Pure’s Magic Number A decade ago, customers needed giant arrays stretching across multiple racks for the kind of problems they solved with our early FlashArray systems.

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The 2019 Global Assessment Report (GAR)

Emergency Planning

An example of this for the 2013 GAR can be found in Di Mauro (2014). Recommendations for a Post-2015 Disaster Risk Reduction Framework to Strengthen the Resilience of Communities to All Hazards. Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities. link] Di Mauro, M. (ed.) GNCSODR 2015.