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The United Kingdom's National Risk Register - 2023 Edition

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This document was first published in 2008 and has been updated (somewhat irregularly) at roughly two-year intervals. The new version presents 89 major hazards and threats that could potentially disrupt life in the United Kingdom and possibly cause casualties and damage. The 2023 NRR is clear and concise.

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Book Review: Disaster and Emergency Management Methods

Recovery Diva

Publisher: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York and London. Key words: environmental governance, sustainability, resilience, climate risk, natural hazard, disaster risk reduction, building regulation. All too often such literature and texts lack gender diversity and key perspectives from women leaders.

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Reflections on the Turkish-Syrian Earthquakes of 6th February 2023: Building Collapse and its Consequences

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Source: Wikimedia Commons An interesting map was published by the US Geological Survey shortly after the Turkish-Syrian earthquakes. [1] How much simpler to attribute it all to anonymous forces within the ground! Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 15: 931-945. Natural Hazards 109: 161-200.

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The 2019 Global Assessment Report (GAR)

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These may be published separately in an academic journal. It could be argued that political decision making is the greatest barrier of all to successful disaster risk reduction. Unofficial voices have suggested that the 'cure to damage ratio' for natural hazards is 1:43. The GAR notes that "we all live in communities".

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Book Review: Justice, Equity, and Emergency Management

Recovery Diva

Emerald Publishing Ltd. The principles establish a high and, for all the authors of this volume, a necessary standard for the aspirations of emergency managers and the communities they serve, to work toward disaster recovery processes and practices whereby: #1 ….all Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management.

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

d) Intentional disasters, comprising all forms of terrorism and sabotage. (e) Na-techs' (natural-technological disasters) appear in this category (Krausmann et al. Warming has already begun to have a substantial effect on the magnitude and frequency of meteorological hazards. Natural Disasters. References Alexander, D.E.

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Book Review: The Continuing Storm: Learning from Katrina

Recovery Diva

Studies, Yale University and Lori Peek, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Natural. Hazards Research Center, University of Colorado Boulder. Publisher: University of Texas Press Austin Texas. Professor Emeritus of Sociology and American. Hardcover Price $90.00.

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