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Community Emergency Managers: Maximize Impact with B.C.’s New Indigenous Engagement Funding

CCEM Strategies

The goal of this initial stream of funding is said “to support capacity needs, relationship-building and collaboration” and is a step toward meeting the new obligations under the EDMA. A long-term funding and capacity building framework is still needed to support First Nations and local authorities in meeting the new EDMA requirements.

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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. The new Act signals an increased focus on climate change, harmonization, self-government of Indigenous Peoples, and investment in risk reduction. In 2019, B.C. In 2019, B.C.

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The 1980 Southern Italian Earthquake After Forty Years

Emergency Planning

The year 1980 was something of a watershed in the field of disaster risk reduction (or disaster management as it was then known). It was clear that the US Government was influenced by the suffering and the shortcomings of the response to the tragedy as it built up its own capacity to respond to natural hazard impacts.

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Four Questions About the Covid-19 Pandemic

Emergency Planning

Hospitals need to develop very substantial surge capacity and greatly increase their infection control measures. When hospital capacity is absorbed by large influxes of people suffering from Covid, the tendency is to defer treatment of patients with other illnesses.

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