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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

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. Tierney (2008) provided a functional semantic classification of the size of extreme events (revised by Alexander 2016, p. )

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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’s leadership failed to implement effective risk management policies, which led to poor lending decisions.

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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. A changing situation The eminent anthropologist Anthony Oliver-Smith argued [vi] that in Haiti colonialism has left an enduring legacy of vulnerability to disasters. Haiti has long had a shortage of all three.