Authorization Education Hazard Risk Reduction 
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. For years, local authorities have been starved of funds and resources. that are pertinent to the field.
Emergency Planning
MARCH 23, 2022
Safety’ refers to protection against major hazards such as storms, floods and industrial explosions. Civil protection must be developed at the local authority level, coordinated regionally and harmonised nationally. Volunteer work should be encouraged in disaster risk reduction and kindred fields. The citizen 4.1
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Recovery Diva
MAY 7, 2022
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.
Emergency Planning
AUGUST 22, 2019
I am the founding editor of the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (IJDRR), which began publishing in August 2012 with just four papers. The reason for mentioning this example is part of my response to an article that appeared in Times Higher Education (THE 2019). Reference THE 2019.
Emergency Planning
MAY 27, 2019
We are now treated to the irony of long queues forming to look at pages and notebooks whose author regarded them as intensely private. It has been suggested that his lack of formal education catalysed his ability to observe objectively: he has no knowledge of Latin or Greek and hence could not read the classic texts of orthodox learning.
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