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Increase Community Resilience for Extreme Cold Emergencies

CCEM Strategies

Rural vs. Urban Resilience to Cold Rural and urban communities face distinct challenges when it comes to cold emergencies, and understanding these differences can help shed light on effective strategies for preparation and response. Need help with Risk Assessments, Planning, Collaboration, or Public Engagement?

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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Emergency Planning

Billions will have to be spent on making the country's infrastructure more resilient against this sort of event. Wording of this kind is designed to defy the country's leading philosophers of logic, and let's remember that the Act is designed to tackle a major emergency–sorry, disaster. It lacks a national emergency operations centre.

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ENSURING CANADA’S CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEM IS READY AND RESILIENT

CCEM Strategies

Ensuring Canada’s Critical Infrastructure system is ready and resilient Can you imagine what would happen if an incident such as a natural disaster compromised our transportation, food or even energy Critical Infrastructure (CI) systems? In November 2021, British Columbians didn’t have to.

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Lessons Identified from the Taiwan Earthquake

Plan B Consulting

It was also recognised that there was a need to improve post-quake response through public and specialist training for emergency and civil defence volunteers. Additionally, it was acknowledged that old buildings needed to undergo structural assessments and improvements to enhance their resilience to earthquakes.

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Hurricane Season: Tips for Your Severe Weather Response Strategies

Castellan

Drawing on respondents’ answers, the report finds that even with the increased severe weather potential, along with long-term climate risks , many organizations are still not approaching these events from a resilience management perspective. It may also be helpful to have them develop a family emergency plan.

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Is Your Community Prepared for Flooding?

CCEM Strategies

Communities (First Nations, Towns, Villages, Districts, Counties, etc.) Review and Enhance Flood Plans Your community already has emergency plans, and you may even have flood-specific plans. Review the plans and think about how flooding might impact your community.

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Top 10 Resources to Help You Become a BCM Ninja 

MHA Consulting

We are living in a golden age in terms of the easy availability of high-quality information on how organizations can make themselves more resilient. Contains links to toolkits for preparing for different hazards as well as pages on Emergency Response Plans, Crisis Communications Plans, Incident Management, IT/DR, and much more.

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