Emergency Planning

MAY 6, 2024

The lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic, alas largely negative, show that a good civilian system designed to protect the public against major hazards and threats can save thousands of lives and billions in losses and wasted expenditure. 1] The best solution to this problem is to promote inclusiveness in emergency preparedness at all levels.

All-Hazards 130

All-Hazards Hazard Risk Reduction Emergency Response 130

Emergency Planning

MARCH 7, 2019

Myth 16: The mass media create an accurate picture of the disasters on which they report. Reality: There is a pervasive tendency for the media to exaggerate and distort disaster-related information. Myth 17: Unburied dead bodies constitute a health hazard. Very rarely are journalists ever expert on disasters and crises.

Hospitality 130

Hospitality All-Hazards Risk Reduction Logistics 130

everbridge

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

trillion in global economic losses,” according to a report conducted by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR). There has also been a rise in geophysical events including earthquakes and tsunamis which have killed more people than any of the other natural hazards under review in this report. Where is your inventory?

Resilience 142

Resilience Risk Reduction Management Command Center 142

Emergency Planning

JULY 29, 2019

What was previously forbidden by custom, practice, sanction and retribution becomes possible, even desirable, as the emerging group of looters frees itself from the shackles of normal constraint. Something similar has happened with the Internet and social media. Early views of social media (e.g. Bird et al.

Risk Reduction 130

Risk Reduction Internet Media All-Hazards 130

Emergency Planning

AUGUST 20, 2021

As bodies piled up on street corners and in courtyards there was no time to count them all. In his words, "the colonial institutions’ assiduous extraction of surpluses left the population both destitute and vulnerable to hazards for centuries to come." Consider, for example, the role of the Internet and social media.

Vulnerability 174

Vulnerability All-Hazards Risk Reduction Government 174