Emergency Planning
AUGUST 3, 2023
This document was first published in 2008 and has been updated (somewhat irregularly) at roughly two-year intervals. e) The risks are prioritised by giving most weight to those associated with hostile activity. This is a simple example: others are more complex, but the intricacies do need to be confronted. (e)
Emergency Planning
APRIL 9, 2020
This reminded me that perhaps 70 per cent of academic publishing is for personnel reasons (to get a job, keep a job, obtain a salary raise, or achieve promotion). I cleave to the old-fashioned view that publishing should take place to further the sharing of good ideas. We confront a new phenomenon: intra-disaster research publication.
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Emergency Planning
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE AR-SA In 1966 the eminent Californian risk analyst Chauncey Starr published a seminal paper in Science Magazine in which he stated that "a thing is safe if its risks are judged to be acceptable." A piece of the Sanriku coast at Minamisanriku, NE Japan. In 2011 there was a 20.5-metre metre tsunami here.
Emergency Planning
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Source: Wikimedia Commons An interesting map was published by the US Geological Survey shortly after the Turkish-Syrian earthquakes. [1] 1] It showed (perhaps somewhat predictively) that there was only one tiny square of the vast affected area in which Modified Mercalli intensity (which is largely a measure of damage) reached 9.0,
MHA Consulting
JANUARY 26, 2023
Then as now, the government published resources to help organizations protect themselves. Many BCM consulting firm sites publish blogs, white papers, and webinars on BC topics that are available free to all comers or in some cases free with registration. BCM consultancy websites. Collectively these are an exceptional resource.
Plan B Consulting
APRIL 13, 2020
The psychological heuristic was first developed by Daniel Kahneman, Barbara Fredrickson, Charles Schreiber and Donald Redelmeier in their paper ‘When More Pain Is Preferred to Less: Adding a Better End’ published in Psychological Science in 1993. They did a series of experiments on peoples’ experience of events and how they recalled them.
Plan B Consulting
APRIL 13, 2020
The psychological heuristic was first developed by Daniel Kahneman, Barbara Fredrickson, Charles Schreiber and Donald Redelmeier in their paper ‘When More Pain Is Preferred to Less: Adding a Better End’ published in Psychological Science in 1993. They did a series of experiments on peoples’ experience of events and how they recalled them.
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