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The 2019 Global Assessment Report (GAR)

Emergency Planning

The United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction was born out of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, 1990-2000. On 1 May 2019 it was renamed the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. Unofficial voices have suggested that the 'cure to damage ratio' for natural hazards is 1:43.

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Book Review: Constructing Risk

Recovery Diva

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.

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

I suggest the following five:- (a) Natural disasters, caused by extreme natural events. Floods, storms and earthquakes dominate the picture, with the ever-present possibility of very large eruptions or extra-terrestrial impacts. (b) d) Intentional disasters, comprising all forms of terrorism and sabotage. (e)

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Unlocking Climate Change Resilience Through Critical Event Management and Public Warning

everbridge

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.

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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). The incessant, cumulative hammer-blow effect of disasters of all kinds on modern society had begun to stimulate a consistent demand for greater safety and security.