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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

Tierney (2008) provided a functional semantic classification of the size of extreme events (revised by Alexander 2016, p. ) The next question is where to draw the boundaries in the study of disasters and practice of disaster risk reduction. Disaster risk reduction policy is heavily influenced by the class of disaster involved.

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The Multiple Factors Leading to the Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank

Erwood Group

Some additional key risk reduction steps SVB took early on were: They required a pledge of half of a startup’s shares as collateral (Reduced later to seven percent). The bank was heavily impacted by the 2008 financial crisis, which led to a decrease in lending opportunities and an increase in non-performing loans.

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Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

Emergency Planning

For example, in the 2008 hurricane season, four named storms arrived. Researchers have identified four goals [vii] : secure land occupation, sufficient and resilient livelihoods, robust and resilient ecosystems, and adequate disaster risk and emergency management. Haiti has long had a shortage of all three.