Emergency Planning

AUGUST 31, 2021

Make emergency planning and management a key profession: develop it nationally. By and large, governments do not want to know about disaster risk reduction. It is simply naive to assume that if one gives governments scientific information they will act on it. They believe they can get by without it.

Risk Reduction 171

Risk Reduction Government Vulnerability Emergency Planning 171

Emergency Planning

JULY 29, 2019

Perhaps this goes some way to explaining the common failure of risk estimation and the tendency willingly to take unnecessary risks. However, an understanding of risk requires, not only an ability to think things through, but also enough information with which to make informed decisions. Alexander, D.E.

Risk Reduction 130

Risk Reduction Internet Media All-Hazards 130

Emergency Planning

MAY 30, 2019

The United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction was born out of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, 1990-2000. On 1 May 2019 it was renamed the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. Initiatives need to coalesce around "risk informed sustainable development".

Risk Reduction 130

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Emergency Planning

JUNE 9, 2019

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. The next question is where to draw the boundaries in the study of disasters and practice of disaster risk reduction.

Risk Reduction 130

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Emergency Planning

AUGUST 20, 2021

A changing situation The eminent anthropologist Anthony Oliver-Smith argued [vi] that in Haiti colonialism has left an enduring legacy of vulnerability to disasters. In his words, "the colonial institutions’ assiduous extraction of surpluses left the population both destitute and vulnerable to hazards for centuries to come."

Vulnerability 174

Vulnerability All-Hazards Risk Reduction Government 174

Emergency Planning

MARCH 7, 2019

Reality: People make decisions on the basis of the information that they are able to obtain and their ability to interpret it. Reality: There is a pervasive tendency for the media to exaggerate and distort disaster-related information. In addition, technology is a potential source of vulnerability as well as a means of reducing it.

Hospitality 130

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