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B.C.’s New Bill 31 – Emergency and Disaster Management Act

CCEM Strategies

s Emergency Management Legislation Has Arrived Marking a historic moment of modernization for emergency and disaster management governance in B.C. NDP has tabled the new Bill 31 – 2023: Emergency and Disaster Management Act. Long Anticipated Update to B.C.’s and across Canada, the B.C.

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Community Emergency Managers: Maximize Impact with B.C.’s New Indigenous Engagement Funding

CCEM Strategies

s recent allocation of $18 million for Indigenous engagement is a critical opportunity for communities to increase preparedness through consultation and collaboration and meet new emergency management legislative requirements. s new Emergency and Disaster Management Act (EDMA) was passed, replacing the previous Emergency Program Act.

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Book Review: Justice, Equity, and Emergency Management

Recovery Diva

3 …requires full harnessing of the communities transformative and adaptive capacity in order to reduce risks for the future…working to eliminate existing patterns of unequal distribution of risk. #4 The chapter is an essential read for emergency managers pursuing the priority topic, how to prepare for multiple overlapping disasters.

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The Everbridge Contribution to Research on Societal Resilience

everbridge

What capacity to react and respond to extreme events do societies have? The research consortium we are part of, asked us this year to represent for the 14-partners’ consortium, Project-ENGAGE to the clusters’ annual meeting in Brussels.

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BCP vs. DR Plans: What Are the Key Differences?

Zerto

Over time, these plans can be expanded as resources, capacity, and business functionality increase. However, testing each new iteration of the disaster recovery or business continuity plan is essential to its success. These SLAs in turn are translated into the relevant RTOs and RPOs that must be achieved to meet the given SLAs.

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Using Budget Principles to Prepare for Future Pandemics and Other Disasters

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

We are now entering an era in which disasters are the norm, and overlapping disasters such as hurricanes and wildfires during a pandemic are transpiring. The prior iteration also included critical focuses like creating a culture of preparedness and simplifying bureaucracy as important nods to basic challenges in disaster management.