Recovery Diva
APRIL 12, 2023
This way the reader is given a roadmap to pick and choose from, if they wish so, the case studies written by various authors whose chapters span a wide variety of hazards as well as geographical and sociological settings all of which delve into a chosen aspect of disaster recovery towards building resiliency.
Emergency Planning
JUNE 9, 2019
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. d) Intentional disasters, comprising all forms of terrorism and sabotage. (e) Disaster is fundamentally a social phenomenon.
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Emergency Planning
MAY 30, 2019
It could be argued that political decision making is the greatest barrier of all to successful disaster risk reduction. Unofficial voices have suggested that the 'cure to damage ratio' for natural hazards is 1:43. Notably, the GAR has finally come around to the view that we all bear the burden of reducing disaster risk.
Emergency Planning
AUGUST 20, 2021
This was in 2010, shortly after Haiti had been prostrated by a magnitude 7 earthquake. As bodies piled up on street corners and in courtyards there was no time to count them all. The 2010 earthquake occurred after yet another period of instability, which the United Nations Peacekeeping mission (MINUSTAH) had striven to bring to an end.
Emergency Planning
JULY 29, 2019
However, by the Haiti earthquake of 2010, a different picture had become to emerge and establish itself (Alexander 2010). Vast resources are now devoted to distorting the picture, and all three superpowers are busy utilising them (Druzin and Gordon 2018, Merrin 2019, Rudick and Dannels 2019). References Alexander, D.E.
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