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

CCEM Strategies

The goal of this initial stream of funding is said “to support capacity needs, relationship-building and collaboration” and is a step toward meeting the new obligations under the EDMA. A long-term funding and capacity building framework is still needed to support First Nations and local authorities in meeting the new EDMA requirements.

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The 1980 Southern Italian Earthquake After Forty Years

Emergency Planning

Civil protection, in the form of locally-based disaster response capacity, would begin to emerge in the following decade, which would end with the inauguration of the United Nations Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction. This rather bizarre and dysfunctional strategy is purely the result of the pattern of availability of money.

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ENSURING CANADA’S CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEM IS READY AND RESILIENT

CCEM Strategies

Provincial and local authorities are aware of the owners and operators of CI in their regions and together, they work to create and test emergency plans that will ensure adequate response procedures and business continuity practices are in place, long before an incident occurs.

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CANADA’S CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE – READINESS & RESILIENCY

CCEM Strategies

This is because, long before an incident occurs, CI operators work with governments to create and test emergency plans to ensure adequate response procedures and business continuity practices are in place, to deal with unforeseen disruptions.

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

By the 1990s, the emergence of civil protection from the matrix of civil defence (Alexander 2002) had broadened the scope to the extent that there was a need for a more functional set of categories. Floods, storms and earthquakes dominate the picture, with the ever-present possibility of very large eruptions or extra-terrestrial impacts. (b)

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Business Continuity 2025 – What Will Future Incidents Look Like?

Plan B Consulting

These bulletins are based on a webinar I was very kindly asked to present a couple of weeks ago for BRMA (Business Recovery Managers Association), who are Northern California’s largest business recovery association. In the 1990s, we had lots of transport and natural disasters, so emergency planning came of age.

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Business Continuity 2025 – What Will Future Incidents Look Like?

Plan B Consulting

These bulletins are based on a webinar I was very kindly asked to present a couple of weeks ago for BRMA (Business Recovery Managers Association), who are Northern California’s largest business recovery association. In the 1990s, we had lots of transport and natural disasters, so emergency planning came of age.