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Building Resilient Communities in the Face of Extreme Heat

CCEM Strategies

AUGUST 9, 2023

Steps to Build Resilience to Extreme Heat in Your Community Emergency managers, policymakers, planners, and community leaders play an important role in helping to build resilience to extreme heat in their communities. Develop response plans. Integrate temperature resilience into urban planning.

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Increase Community Resilience for Extreme Cold Emergencies

CCEM Strategies

JANUARY 11, 2024

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. Understanding local risk profiles helps mitigate, prepare for, and respond to extreme cold emergencies.

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A Proposed Strategy to Advocate for Improved Civil Protection in the United Kingdom

Emergency Planning

MAY 6, 2024

One of the UK's senior and most accomplished emergency planners recently remarked that "“our societal resilience is the lowest I have ever perceived”. Em powerment of local authorities to have their own emergency managers and emergency operations centres, fully connected to the system in a capillary manner.

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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Emergency Planning

OCTOBER 21, 2022

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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Is Your Community Prepared for Flooding?

CCEM Strategies

MAY 11, 2023

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. Meeting those responsibilities is challenging, but steps can be taken to increase the likelihood of success.

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Hurricane Season: Tips for Your Severe Weather Response Strategies

Castellan

AUGUST 2, 2022

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. Educate and train employees to be ready for response and recovery.

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Top 10 Resources to Help You Become a BCM Ninja

MHA Consulting

JANUARY 26, 2023

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.

BCM

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Leonardo and the Deluge

Emergency Planning

MAY 27, 2019

It has been suggested that his lack of formal education catalysed his ability to observe objectively: he has no knowledge of Latin or Greek and hence could not read the classic texts of orthodox learning. Resilience and disaster risk reduction: an etymological journey. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8306.1984.tb01472.x 1467-8306.1984.tb01472.x

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More on the Covid-19 Academic Gold Rush

Emergency Planning

APRIL 9, 2020

Times Higher Education , April 9, 2020. Disaster gold rushes, sophisms and academic neocolonialism: comments on ‘Earthquake disasters and resilience in the global North’. References Baker, Simon, 2020. Huge Covid-19 output prompting ‘sea change’ in access to research. Geographical Journal 179(3): 272-277. Gaillard, J-C. Gomez 2015.

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KNOWING THESE EARTHQUAKE MYTHS MAY HELP KEEP YOU SAFE

CCEM Strategies

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

But by educating ourselves so we know what to do when the ground starts to shake, we can reduce our risk of getting injured. Here are the top 5 myths people think they should do during an earthquake and what you should do instead.

Business Continuity

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Business Continuity Learning – Where do you start?

Plan B Consulting

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Reflecting on the theme for this year’s BCI Education Month, ‘Discover Business Continuity & Resilience’, Charlie looks at how newcomers to the profession can learn from the experience of others and gain the knowledge to succeed in their role. Business continuity is not a profession you can learn out of a book.

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Business Continuity Learning – Where do you start?

Plan B Consulting

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Reflecting on the theme for this year’s BCI Education Month, ‘Discover Business Continuity & Resilience’, Charlie looks at how newcomers to the profession can learn from the experience of others and gain the knowledge to succeed in their role. Business continuity is not a profession you can learn out of a book.

Business Continuity

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Five ways to improve campus safety and security

everbridge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Department of Education, Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2021 , 93 school shootings with casualties occurred at U.S. Especially because “ K-12 schools and higher education institutions are the second most common location, after businesses, for active shooter incidents in the U.S. Validate planning. Formalize recognition.

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A Resilience Charter

Emergency Planning

MARCH 23, 2022

The purpose of this charter is to specify the responsibilities of the state and citizens in the field of resilience against disasters, crises and major public emergencies and incidents. The future of humanity will involve very significant challenges in order to create and maintain resilience. Plans should be networked.

Resilience

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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Emergency Planning

JULY 29, 2019

For example, if people are poor and their lives are generally precarious, they cannot be made resilient against disasters such as floods and earthquakes unless the problem of vulnerability to life's exigencies in general is reduced. Communication Education 68(3): 393-398. Property norms and looting: their patterns in community crisis.

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A Proposed Strategy to Advocate for Improved Civil Protection in the United Kingdom

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Is Your Community Prepared for Flooding?

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Leonardo and the Deluge

More on the Covid-19 Academic Gold Rush

KNOWING THESE EARTHQUAKE MYTHS MAY HELP KEEP YOU SAFE

Business Continuity Learning – Where do you start?

Business Continuity Learning – Where do you start?

Five ways to improve campus safety and security

A Resilience Charter

Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

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