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. Unofficial voices have suggested that the 'cure to damage ratio' for natural hazards is 1:43. DRR is thus now truly mainstreamed at the global level. The 'should ratio'.
National Center for Disaster Prepardness
MAY 12, 2021
state develops a hazard mitigation plan, which identifies top local risks and provides a framework for long term strategies to reduce risk and protect citizens and property from damage. 8 states/territories mention pandemic planning but do not discuss further how the state or agency will be able to mitigate the hazard from the event.
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Recovery Diva
NOVEMBER 22, 2021
Helpful anecdotes are inserted throughout, balancing critical assessments where organizations and countries have not used available methods of risk assessment, and as a result, “…acting individually and through collective bodies, succeed neither in effective policy nor practice in reducing vulnerability of the built environment.” [p.
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. Warming has already begun to have a substantial effect on the magnitude and frequency of meteorological hazards. Necci 2019.
National Center for Disaster Prepardness
JANUARY 19, 2022
At the same time, we see widening inequalities in who has access to recovery resources, and disparities in vulnerability that are too often predictable by socioeconomic status, race and ethnicity. In an era of threats and vulnerabilities that are increasing in complexity we need to simplify the process.
Risk Management Monitor
NOVEMBER 9, 2022
They may be contaminated by agricultural or industrial chemicals, or hazardous agents. Since 2019, NOAA has been utilizing models that provide a more realistic expected arrival times for storms. Similarly, avoid wading in floodwaters. NOAA’s main function is to monitor weather and distribute alerts and warnings.
Reciprocity
AUGUST 24, 2022
Not long ago, risk managers concerned themselves mainly with hazards such as fires and floods; or in the financial sector, loan defaults (credit risk). In 2020, Gartner informed vendors evaluated in the 2019 Magic Quadrant that it had retired the IRM market category “in favor of more targeted marketing segments.”
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