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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

By the 1990s, the emergence of civil protection from the matrix of civil defence (Alexander 2002) had broadened the scope to the extent that there was a need for a more functional set of categories. d) Intentional disasters, comprising all forms of terrorism and sabotage. (e) Disaster Prevention and Management 11(3): 209-213.

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IRM, ERM, and GRC: Is There a Difference?

Reciprocity

The various niches of risk management have become a veritable alphabet soup of acronyms. As a result, we now have: Enterprise risk management (ERM). Governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC). Integrated risk management (IRM). Are there differences at all? Which is best?