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Resilience is an illusion

Emergency Planning

After much pondering of the question, I have come to the conclusion that resilience is an illusion. This is not to denigrate the work of resilience managers, as there is obviously much to be done to reduce the risk and impact of adverse events. However, the concept of resilience is, I think, suspect. References Alexander, D.E.

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Leonardo and the Deluge

Emergency Planning

Towards the end of his life he became preoccupied with the threat of the Universal Deluge (in this he was not alone: see my paper on the etymology of the term 'resilience'). Resilience and disaster risk reduction: an etymological journey. DOI: 10.5194/nhess-13-2707-2013 Clayton, M. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8306.1986.tb00102.x

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Driving Scientific Discovery with Big Data

Pure Storage

Created in 2013, the department is a leading light in exploring how healthcare is delivered in the UK and around the world. Instead, replication happened on a timed basis, posing a risk for both resilience and for data recovery if something went wrong. That’s just one example of the critical health research NDPH conducts.

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More on the Covid-19 Academic Gold Rush

Emergency Planning

In this context, I salute the thoughtful work of Christopher Gomez, Dierdre Hart and JC Gaillard (Gomez and Hart 2013, Gaillard and Gomez 2015) on the phenomenon of the "disaster gold rush". Disaster gold rushes, sophisms and academic neocolonialism: comments on ‘Earthquake disasters and resilience in the global North’. Gaillard, J-C.

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Increased Resilience – The Missing Strategy

Plan B Consulting

There is no mention of working from home which, with evolution in IT, this is available to a lot more staff now, then it was when the GPG was written in 2013. Increased resilience could come in different forms. The post Increased Resilience – The Missing Strategy appeared first on PlanB Consulting. These could include: 1.

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Increased Resilience – The Missing Strategy

Plan B Consulting

There is no mention of working from home which, with evolution in IT, this is available to a lot more staff now, then it was when the GPG was written in 2013. Increased resilience could come in different forms. The post Increased Resilience – The Missing Strategy appeared first on PlanB Consulting. These could include: 1.

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The 2019 Global Assessment Report (GAR)

Emergency Planning

An example of this for the 2013 GAR can be found in Di Mauro (2014). Global probabilistic assessment of risk from natural hazards for the Global Assessment Report 2013 (GAR13). Recommendations for a Post-2015 Disaster Risk Reduction Framework to Strengthen the Resilience of Communities to All Hazards. GNCSODR 2015. UNISDR 2005.