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The 2019 Global Assessment Report (GAR)

Emergency Planning

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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Unlocking Climate Change Resilience Through Critical Event Management and Public Warning

everbridge

In the period 2000 to 2019, there were 7,348 major recorded disaster events claiming 1.23 The report “The Human Cost of Disasters 2000-2019” also records major increases in other categories including drought, wildfires , and extreme temperature events. So, how can public and private sectors cultivate climate change resilience?

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Hazardous Conditions: Mitigation Planning and Pandemics

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

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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Book Review: Justice, Equity, and Emergency Management

Recovery Diva

Review by Donald Watson, co-author with Michele Adams of Design for Flooding: Resilience to Climate Change (Wiley 2011). Each chapter gives examples for emergency management to achieve “Just Disaster Recovery,” proposed in 2019 by Jerollemen in Disaster Recovery Through the Lens of Justice. reviewed in Recovery Diva March 29, 2019 ].

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What is Cyber Resilience and Why It Matters

Castellan

Resilience is all about the ability to recover quickly when faced with a challenge. For businesses, resilience is often tied directly to business continuity, where professionals are tasked with ensuring an organization can quickly adjust, adapt, respond, and recover from disruptions and disasters. What is Cyber Resilience?

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5 Reasons You Need a Backup and Disaster Recovery Plan

Zerto

In 2023, organizations will generate nearly 3 times the volume of data generated in 2019. Ensuring business resilience requires a robust and tested backup and disaster recovery plan. Data is growing faster than ever, and protecting it is becoming increasingly complex. The total data created will reach 181ZB by 2025.

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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Emergency Planning

In some instances, notably the Manchester Arena bombing and the Grenfell Tower fire (both in 2017), the shortcomings have been nothing less than scandalous (Kerslake 2018, Moore-Bick 2019). Billions will have to be spent on making the country's infrastructure more resilient against this sort of event. These are rather ambiguous bodies.