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FEMA Updates its National Risk Index

Recovery Diva

Since 2016, FEMA’s Natural Hazards Risk Assessment Program has collaborated with federal, local, and state government and private industry to help illustrate areas in the U.S. most at risk for 18 natural hazards. From the HSDL: FEMA Updates Its National Risk Index FEMA has recently updated its National Risk Index.

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Resilience is an illusion

Emergency Planning

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 13(11): 2707-2716. References Alexander, D.E. Resilience and disaster risk reduction: an etymological journey. Holling, C.S Resilience and stability of ecological systems. Annual Reviews of Ecological Systems 4(1): 1-23. Manyena, B. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science 7(1): 41-53.

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

While not independent of the magnitude of physical forces involved, it is not linearly related to them because it depends on the nature and size of the vulnerabilities that the physical forces act upon. Tierney (2008) provided a functional semantic classification of the size of extreme events (revised by Alexander 2016, p. )