article thumbnail

Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

Included are toxic spills, transportation crashes and the effects of human error. (c) For example, counter-terrorism policy and policy against natural hazards can be quite different. Business Continuity Management: A Crisis Management Approach (2nd edn). Herbane 2010. Routledge, London, 352 pp. Girgin and A.

article thumbnail

Unlocking Climate Change Resilience Through Critical Event Management and Public Warning

everbridge

There has also been a rise in geophysical events including earthquakes and tsunamis which have killed more people than any of the other natural hazards under review in this report. Disaster risk is becoming systemic with one event overlapping and influencing another in ways that are testing our resilience to the limit,” Mizutori said.