All-Hazards Event Risk Reduction 
Emergency Planning
MAY 14, 2024
This is not to denigrate the work of resilience managers, as there is obviously much to be done to reduce the risk and impact of adverse events. Put bluntly, in disaster risk reduction, these days the goalposts are moving faster than the players. Resilience and disaster risk reduction: an etymological journey.
National Fire Protection Association
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
Ready, a national public service campaign, has earmarked September as National Preparedness Month and urges those of us tasked with protecting people and property from fire, electrical, and related hazards, to work together, help educate, and empower the public to prepare for, respond to, and mitigate emergencies before they become tragedies.
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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. Safety measures at Europe's largest nuclear plant, Zaporizhzhia in eastern Ukraine, hang by a thread.
Recovery Diva
NOVEMBER 22, 2021
These statements document incremental progress to recognizing the principal message and caution of this book, that our development practices—the ways we build on the land—too often resulting in increasing risk of disaster, when they could and should be doing the opposite, reducing risk to natural disaster, climate change and sea level rise.
Emergency Planning
JUNE 9, 2019
Tierney (2008) provided a functional semantic classification of the size of extreme events (revised by Alexander 2016, p. ) I suggest the following five:- (a) Natural disasters, caused by extreme natural events. d) Intentional disasters, comprising all forms of terrorism and sabotage. (e)
everbridge
MARCH 6, 2023
According to research conducted by Verdantix , “more than half of organizations have less than $1 million to respond to catastrophic events, and 41% of participants stated that they had no budget at all for catastrophic events” (Navigating Climate Threats and Proactive Mechanisms to Achieve Business Climate Resilience, November 2022).
Emergency Planning
FEBRUARY 9, 2021
The anniversary provided an opportunity to look back at the event and consider how the recovery process fared. The year 1980 was something of a watershed in the field of disaster risk reduction (or disaster management as it was then known). For the local economy, all was not lost, or not quite all.
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