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Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Emergency Planning

In disaster risk reduction circles, there is an almost desperate reliance on 'community' and a strong growth in studies and plans to "involve the community" in facing up to risks and impacts (Berkes and Ross 2013). The challenge of the 21st century is to involve people and organisations in managing their own risks.

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Leonardo and the Deluge

Emergency Planning

We are now treated to the irony of long queues forming to look at pages and notebooks whose author regarded them as intensely private. Resilience and disaster risk reduction: an etymological journey. DOI: 10.5194/nhess-13-2707-2013 Clayton, M. Nor, for more than four centuries, could they be bothered to read them.

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ISO 27001 Certification Requirements & Standards

Reciprocity

Your primary reference points will be ISO/IEC 27001:2013, ISO/IEC 27002:2013, and ISO/IEC 27000:2018. Risk assessments are at the heart of every ISMS and include five critical components: Putting in place a risk management framework. Analyzing risks. Evaluating risks. Choosing risk-reduction treatments.

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SIA New Member Profile: Riley

Security Industry Association

In 2013, we added a security consulting and advisory practice to support clients across the Middle East and Africa. The question, however, shouldn’t always be about cost reduction; it should be about risk reduction. What do you enjoy most about being at your company – and in the security industry?