Emergency Planning

MAY 30, 2019

On 1 May 2019 it was renamed the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. The 2019 report is accompanied by an executive summary called GAR Distilled. Further Reading The full and abbreviated Global Assessment Report 2019 can both be freely downloaded from [link] Alexander, D.E. Linnerooth-Bayer (eds) 2019. Mechler, R.,

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Emergency Planning

JUNE 9, 2019

While not independent of the magnitude of physical forces involved, it is not linearly related to them because it depends on the nature and size of the vulnerabilities that the physical forces act upon. Necci 2019. UNDRR 2019. Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2019. Disasters 42(S2): S265-S286.

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Plan B Consulting

MARCH 21, 2021

This week I look at the risk of a cyber-attack and the importance of reviewing your vulnerability to water, wastewater and electricity loss. This week I thought I would talk about the vulnerability of water systems to cyber-attacks and some ideas of what, as business continuity professionals, we can do about this.

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Plan B Consulting

MARCH 21, 2021

This week I look at the risk of a cyber-attack and the importance of reviewing your vulnerability to water, wastewater and electricity loss. This week I thought I would talk about the vulnerability of water systems to cyber-attacks and some ideas of what, as business continuity professionals, we can do about this. Water industry 1995.

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Emergency Planning

AUGUST 20, 2021

A changing situation The eminent anthropologist Anthony Oliver-Smith argued [vi] that in Haiti colonialism has left an enduring legacy of vulnerability to disasters. In his words, "the colonial institutions’ assiduous extraction of surpluses left the population both destitute and vulnerable to hazards for centuries to come."

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Emergency Planning

JULY 29, 2019

The result is a communication process which has been termed chronic contagion (Pomerantsev 2019). Vast resources are now devoted to distorting the picture, and all three superpowers are busy utilising them (Druzin and Gordon 2018, Merrin 2019, Rudick and Dannels 2019). Dannels 2019. Hoskins and W. O'Connor, D. Dynes 1970.

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