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September is National Preparedness Month: Is Your Community Ready to Respond to a Severe Weather Event or Emergency?

National Fire Protection Association

NFPA has a wealth of information to help guide building owners and facility managers, first responders, health care facility managers, electrical professionals, and public educators, as they prepare ahead of weather events in their area and work closely with communities to develop emergency plans.

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

The next question is where to draw the boundaries in the study of disasters and practice of disaster risk reduction. However, again, there is a need to draw a line and thus to regard these as parallel or kindred phenomena, with which there is much interchange, but they are not within the fold of disaster risk reduction sensu stricto.

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Unlocking Climate Change Resilience Through Critical Event Management and Public Warning

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trillion in global economic losses,” according to a report conducted by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR). Disaster risk is becoming systemic with one event overlapping and influencing another in ways that are testing our resilience to the limit,” Mizutori said. million lives, affecting 4.2

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September is National Preparedness Month: Is Your Community Ready to Respond to a Severe Weather Event or Emergency?

National Fire Protection Association

NFPA® has a wealth of information to help guide building owners and facility managers, first responders, health care facility managers, electrical professionals, and public educators, as they prepare ahead of weather events in their area and work closely with communities to develop emergency plans.

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Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Emergency Planning

In disaster risk reduction circles, there is an almost desperate reliance on 'community' and a strong growth in studies and plans to "involve the community" in facing up to risks and impacts (Berkes and Ross 2013). Encyclopedia of Crisis Management. However,'community' is contentious concept (Barrios 2014).

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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Emergency Planning

Any attempt to relate the current anomie to disaster risk reduction (DRR) must take account of the 'egg hypothesis'. In modern disaster risk reduction, problem solvers abound. Journal of Emergency Management 8(6): 15-27. Social media in disaster risk reduction and crisis management.