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Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Emergency Planning

However,'community' is contentious concept (Barrios 2014). At its most benign, it is about relative influence (Barrios 2014). Encyclopedia of Crisis Management. The intentions are laudable, as DRR needs to be democratised if it is to function. In the worst cases, they are effectively invisible outside their own circles.

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Sensing the Tremors of Disruption

Fusion Risk Management

Pandemics were on national risk registers and scenario exercised with national agencies in the UK and US just a couple of years prior; Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, setting itself up to be able to effectively target a resource rich Ukraine; and in borrowing so much during lockdown, we couldn’t avoid a state of rising inflation this year.