Recovery Diva

MAY 7, 2022

Book Review: The Invention of Disaster: Power of Knowledge in Discourses of Hazard and Vulnerability. The book is part of Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change. It takes a highly philosophical approach but presents constructive criticism and lands on solid ground with useful takeaways.

Risk Reduction 113

Risk Reduction Hazard Natural Hazard Vulnerability 113

Recovery Diva

MAY 12, 2022

3 …requires full harnessing of the communities transformative and adaptive capacity in order to reduce risks for the future…working to eliminate existing patterns of unequal distribution of risk. #4 4 …is not possible without equal access to resources and programs. The chapter is based on the writing of the late Rev. How do we do them?

Management 113

Management All-Hazards Transportation Disaster Recovery 113

Emergency Planning

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

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.

Natural Hazard 130

Natural Hazard All-Hazards Automotive Risk Reduction 130

Emergency Planning

JUNE 9, 2019

I suggest the following five:- (a) Natural disasters, caused by extreme natural events. Floods, storms and earthquakes dominate the picture, with the ever-present possibility of very large eruptions or extra-terrestrial impacts. (b) For example, counter-terrorism policy and policy against natural hazards can be quite different.

Risk Reduction 130

Risk Reduction Natural Hazard All-Hazards Hazard 130