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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

There is currently a move to extirpate the term 'natural disasters' on the grounds that disasters by definition are not natural events (UNDRR 2019, p. The next question is where to draw the boundaries in the study of disasters and practice of disaster risk reduction. Why, then, do we not include it in disaster studies per se?

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B.C.’s New Bill 31 – Emergency and Disaster Management Act

CCEM Strategies

A deliberate focus on modernization first emerged five years ago in 2018, when the Province adopted the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. In 2019, B.C. In 2019, B.C. The new Act signals an increased focus on climate change, harmonization, self-government of Indigenous Peoples, and investment in risk reduction.