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. Labeling certain groups as vulnerable justifies the intervention of outside actors (i.e. Series Editor: Ilan Kelman.

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National Center for Disaster Prepardness

DECEMBER 18, 2023

However, institutional barriers often limit many communities’ adaptive capacities. NCDP studies the readiness of governmental and non-governmental systems, the complexities of population recovery, the power of community engagement, and the risks of human vulnerability.

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CCEM Strategies

JUNE 5, 2023

Summer is not without its share of hazards due to the hot weather. From storms triggering electrical outages to droughts and heat domes that can contribute to wildfires (which in turn can cause poor air quality), all these hazards have the potential to cause detrimental impacts to your organization.

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National Center for Disaster Prepardness

OCTOBER 26, 2023

In 2003, the National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP), Columbia University, was founded to provide an academically based, interdisciplinary center focused on the capacity to prevent, respond to, and recover from disasters. Below are reflections and commentary from members of the NCDP team. residents since the Civil War.

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Disaster Recovery

JULY 22, 2019

Defining these cyber hazards can be tricky. All online entities are vulnerable to these hazards. Upgrade Website Capacity. By increasing your website’s capacity you can seamlessly handle the extra load and resolve dips in website performance during traffic spikes. DDoS Attacks.

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Emergency Planning

JUNE 9, 2019

While not independent of the magnitude of physical forces involved, it is not linearly related to them because it depends on the nature and size of the vulnerabilities that the physical forces act upon. Warming has already begun to have a substantial effect on the magnitude and frequency of meteorological hazards. Krausmann, E.,

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PagerDuty

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Notably, the health inequities we’ve witnessed in the pandemic response are mirrored in the way that persistent racial, class and gender inequalities leave many groups more vulnerable to the impacts of environmental hazards and climate change. In researching the field of climate philanthropy, we learned of another inequity: only 1.3%

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