Emergency Planning

MAY 14, 2024

This is not to denigrate the work of resilience managers, as there is obviously much to be done to reduce the risk and impact of adverse events. Put bluntly, in disaster risk reduction, these days the goalposts are moving faster than the players. Resilience and disaster risk reduction: an etymological journey.

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Crisis Response Journal

MARCH 17, 2016

Today (March 18, 2016) the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR) is celebrating its first birthday. The Sendai Framework was the first 2030 development agreement adopted by governments at the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduc

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Emergency Planning

JUNE 9, 2019

Tierney (2008) provided a functional semantic classification of the size of extreme events (revised by Alexander 2016, p. ) The next question is where to draw the boundaries in the study of disasters and practice of disaster risk reduction. Disaster risk reduction policy is heavily influenced by the class of disaster involved.

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Risk Reduction Natural Hazard All-Hazards Hazard 130