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COVID-19: 5 Lessons Learned in Understanding and Managing Risk

DRI Drive

While we’re certainly not done with the pandemic, two years of experience has given us a great deal of insight on how we identify and manage systemic risks, as a new report illustrates. The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) has released a new report that presents findings from five case studies in […]. The post COVID-19: 5 Lessons Learned in Understanding and Managing Risk appeared first on DRI Drive.

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Foresight

Emergency Planning

A principle of cascading disasters is that the world is ever more closely linked by networks on which we all depend for communications, commerce, enlightenment and entertainment. When disaster strikes, these networks are capable of transmitting impacts through a variety of domains and system states, each of which produces different consequences. The cascade is a result of the progression of a shock through different kinds of vulnerability.

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The wound that could not speak its name 

Crisis Response Journal

April 2022: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can be caused by a wide variety of situations, says Matt Minshall, who describes how a UK-based charity is providing much needed care and treatment for sufferers

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The Phoenix Ghost Drone

Disaster Zone

Another weapon for the Ukraine arsenal.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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2021 AUBE/SUPDET Conference was a Hit!

National Fire Protection Association

The 2021 AUBE/SUPDET Conference hosted in Duisburg, Germany had more than 75 education sessions centered around the latest detection and suppression systems research! For the first time, the conference was a hybrid experience. And not only did it go off without a hitch, but both live and pre-recorded sessions were integrated into the conference, offering flexibility for speakers and attendees. [[ This is a content summary only.