Emergency Planning

JUNE 9, 2019

The study of disasters is a 'lateral discipline' that, to varying degrees embraces at least 42 other disciplines and professions (Alexander 2013). The need to include military strategy and the strategic politics of defence in our studies would unbalance them. Disaster is fundamentally a social phenomenon. Alexander, D. Alexander, D.E.

Risk Reduction 130

Risk Reduction Natural Hazard All-Hazards Hazard 130

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

JANUARY 19, 2022

We have forward-looking actions across government, such as FEMA’s Strategic Plan. At the same time, we see widening inequalities in who has access to recovery resources, and disparities in vulnerability that are too often predictable by socioeconomic status, race and ethnicity.

Pandemic 52

Pandemic Disaster Preparedness All-Hazards Government 52

Reciprocity

AUGUST 24, 2022

Not long ago, risk managers concerned themselves mainly with hazards such as fires and floods; or in the financial sector, loan defaults (credit risk). COSO’s ERM framework builds upon, and is intended to work with, the committee’s internal control framework issued in 1992 and updated in 2013. Are there differences at all?

Risk Management 52

Risk Management Audit Insurance Insurance 52