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The 2019 Global Assessment Report (GAR)

Emergency Planning

The GAR proper consists of 15 chapters in four sections: introductory, the Sendai Framework (SFDRR), its implementation (and interaction with sustainable development), and managing risk nationally and locally. An example of this for the 2013 GAR can be found in Di Mauro (2014). Disaster Planning and Emergency Management, 18 July 2017.

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Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Emergency Planning

However,'community' is contentious concept (Barrios 2014). Yet, faced with natural hazards, relative isolation, economic deprivation and cultural decline, it badly needs social solidarity, and that is something it lacks. At its most benign, it is about relative influence (Barrios 2014). Encyclopedia of Crisis Management.