Emergency Planning
JULY 5, 2019
2017), but to answer the question properly, we have to ask another. Like any field of study, disaster risk reduction needs lateral thinking. Paton 2017. So do we have a paradigm in disaster studies? If we do, is it going to be overthrown by a scientific revolution (or a social scientific one)? perhaps not!)
Emergency Planning
MAY 30, 2019
The United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction was born out of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, 1990-2000. On 1 May 2019 it was renamed the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. Initiatives need to coalesce around "risk informed sustainable development". GNCSODR 2015.
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National Fire Protection Association
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
NFPA has a wealth of information to help guide building owners and facility managers, first responders, health care facility managers, electrical professionals, and public educators, as they prepare ahead of weather events in their area and work closely with communities to develop emergency plans.
National Fire Protection Association
SEPTEMBER 9, 2022
NFPA® has a wealth of information to help guide building owners and facility managers, first responders, health care facility managers, electrical professionals, and public educators, as they prepare ahead of weather events in their area and work closely with communities to develop emergency plans.
Emergency Planning
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
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 intentions are laudable, as DRR needs to be democratised if it is to function.
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