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Book Review: The Invention of Disaster

Recovery Diva

Book Review: The Invention of Disaster: Power of Knowledge in Discourses of Hazard and Vulnerability. Author : JC Gaillard, Professor of Geography, University of Auckland, New Zealand. The book is part of Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change. Series Editor: Ilan Kelman. For more information: [link].

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Community Emergency Managers: Maximize Impact with B.C.’s New Indigenous Engagement Funding

CCEM Strategies

For example: Risk assessments and emergency and business continuity plans now need to consider Indigenous knowledge, climate change, cultural safety, and impacts on vulnerable persons, animals, places or things. Build on and reference existing risk assessments, plans, and other program elements.