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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. Warming has already begun to have a substantial effect on the magnitude and frequency of meteorological hazards. Natural Disasters.

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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). The advent of the digital age is partly to blame.