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Book Review: The Invention of Disaster

Recovery Diva

Author : JC Gaillard, Professor of Geography, University of Auckland, New Zealand. is a disaster risk management specialist, currently working for the Pacific Disaster Center (PDC Global). Book Review: The Invention of Disaster: Power of Knowledge in Discourses of Hazard and Vulnerability. Reviewer: Irmak Renda-Tanali, D.Sc.

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Book Review: Constructing Risk

Recovery Diva

Reviewed by Donald Watson, editor of the website theOARSlist.com , Organizations Addressing Resilience and Sustainability, editor of Time-Saver Standards for Urban Design (McGraw-Hill 2001), and co-author with Michele Adams of Design for Flooding: Resilience to Climate Change (Wiley 2011). He has served as consultant for United Nations, U.S.

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B.C.’s New Bill 31 – Emergency and Disaster Management Act

CCEM Strategies

s Emergency Management Legislation Has Arrived Marking a historic moment of modernization for emergency and disaster management governance in B.C. A deliberate focus on modernization first emerged five years ago in 2018, when the Province adopted the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. Long Anticipated Update to B.C.’s

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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. In alignment with UNDRIP and B.C.’s The team at CCEM can help. Contact us today to get started!

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SIA New Member Profile: Paratus Consultants Group

Security Industry Association

New Security Industry Association (SIA) member Paratus Consultants Group is a full-service safety and security, risk reduction, mitigation and emergency preparedness consulting firm. SIA also leads when it comes to representing the industry in government relations. How does your organization engage with SIA?

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Four Questions About the Covid-19 Pandemic

Emergency Planning

This means that coordination between national, regional and local authorities needs to be strong and extensive. Higher levels of government need fully to support local efforts to bring the pandemic under control. On the other hand, local authorities should not be abandoned as they struggle to bring the disease under control.

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It's Tsunami Preparedness Week - Get informed and stay safe!

CCEM Strategies

Local authorities may use their own alerting system and share information via radio, television, phone call, text message, social media, and/or alert apps. CCEM has worked with several communities and organizations on disaster risk reduction projects, including tsunami and evacuation planning.

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