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The 2019 Global Assessment Report (GAR)

Emergency Planning

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. International Journal for Disaster Risk Reduction 10(B): 403-502. UNISDR 2005.

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

The next question is where to draw the boundaries in the study of disasters and practice of disaster risk reduction. However, again, there is a need to draw a line and thus to regard these as parallel or kindred phenomena, with which there is much interchange, but they are not within the fold of disaster risk reduction sensu stricto.

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The Intersection of BCM and ERM

Castellan

Business Continuity Management Enterprise Risk Management BCM addresses the development of strategies, plans and actions which provide risk reduction opportunities, response frameworks and alternative modes of operation for critical business processes and technologies. COSO ERM – Integrated Framework – 2004).

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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Emergency Planning

Since the late 20th century, the concept of anomie has been reinterpreted (Allan 2005, pp. Any attempt to relate the current anomie to disaster risk reduction (DRR) must take account of the 'egg hypothesis'. In modern disaster risk reduction, problem solvers abound. He attributed it to rapid population growth.