Emergency Planning

APRIL 24, 2022

A principle of cascading disasters is that the world is ever more closely linked by networks on which we all depend for communications, commerce, enlightenment and entertainment. It is obvious that military instability is likely to complicate and retard the process of getting natural hazard impacts under control. DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2013.06.107

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Natural Hazard All-Hazards Entertainment Transportation 199

BCP Builder

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The resulting Risk Register will be comprehensive and will cover almost all the risks and could be used both for Business Continuity and Risk Management. of ISO 22301:2012) these can be sourced (in part) from the risk register and Enterprise Risk Management and evaluated with a Business Continuity Management lens.

Risk Management 52

Risk Management Business Continuity All-Hazards Management 52

Emergency Planning

AUGUST 22, 2019

I am the founding editor of the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (IJDRR), which began publishing in August 2012 with just four papers. Prior to submitting a work for publication, one must make sure that one has read all the truly pertinent literature.

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Publishing All-Hazards Risk Reduction Education 130

Emergency Planning

AUGUST 20, 2021

As bodies piled up on street corners and in courtyards there was no time to count them all. In his words, "the colonial institutions’ assiduous extraction of surpluses left the population both destitute and vulnerable to hazards for centuries to come." Haiti has long had a shortage of all three. ii] Farmer, Paul 2012.

Vulnerability 174

Vulnerability All-Hazards Risk Reduction Government 174

Emergency Planning

JULY 29, 2019

2012) found that the negative aspects, such as the diffusion of unfounded rumour, were self-correcting. 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). Haynes 2012. Early views of social media (e.g.

Risk Reduction 130

Risk Reduction Internet Media All-Hazards 130

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

JANUARY 19, 2022

Preparedness funding has ebbed and flowed over the years, peaking a few years after 9/11 and gradually decreasing with health security grant programs decreasing by a third to as much as half from their peaks, with similar reductions across all-hazards emergency management grant programs.

Pandemic 52

Pandemic Disaster Preparedness All-Hazards Government 52

National Fire Protection Association

DECEMBER 14, 2022

In 2012, Colorado and Washington became the first two states to legalize recreational use of cannabis. Facilities of all shapes and sizes began popping up in states where cannabis was legalized to be manufactured. Both the cannabis plant and the industry itself have been growing quite a bit over the past decade.

All-Hazards 18

All-Hazards Hazard Manufacturing Publishing 18