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. Natural Hazards 86: 969-988. So do we have a paradigm in disaster studies? Some researchers evidently think so (Ismail-Zadeh et al. perhaps not!)

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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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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".

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