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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

Pandemics are included because many of the effects of a pandemic are likely to be socio-economic in nature. 2010) showed that in Colombia the combined effect of 20,000 small destructive events was much greater than the socio-economic impact of five large disasters. Herbane 2010. Barbat 2010. Field 2018). Swartz and B.

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The 2019 Global Assessment Report (GAR)

Emergency Planning

Unofficial voices have suggested that the 'cure to damage ratio' for natural hazards is 1:43. The Sendai Framework and all the United Nations impedimenta that goes with it tend to perpetuate this issue, despite the launch in 2010 of the UN Safe Cities programme (about 1% of towns and cities have signed up for it). GNCSODR 2015.

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Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Emergency Planning

Yet, faced with natural hazards, relative isolation, economic deprivation and cultural decline, it badly needs social solidarity, and that is something it lacks. There is no such thing as societeigh", she said in that false plummy, slightly hectoring, distinctly overbearing voice (Tice 2010). Socialist (25 November 2010), p.

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Business Continuity in the Caribbean

Plan B Consulting

My first lesson is about the number of natural hazards in the area. Earthquakes – Probably the most well-known is the earthquake which hit Haiti on 12th January 2010, affecting 3 million people and killing an estimated 100,000 to 160,000. It also caused damage to 250,000 houses and 300,000 commercial premises.

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Business Continuity in the Caribbean

Plan B Consulting

My first lesson is about the number of natural hazards in the area. Earthquakes – Probably the most well-known is the earthquake which hit Haiti on 12th January 2010, affecting 3 million people and killing an estimated 100,000 to 160,000. It also caused damage to 250,000 houses and 300,000 commercial premises.