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Foresight

Emergency Planning

The cascade is a result of the progression of a shock through different kinds of vulnerability. It can signify a means of diversifying assets so as to optimise the way they can be used to exploit people, for example, by shifting manufacturing production to places where wages can most easily be suppressed.

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Common Misconceptions about Disaster

Emergency Planning

Myth 17: Unburied dead bodies constitute a health hazard. Reality: Not even advanced decomposition causes a significant health hazard. In addition, technology is a potential source of vulnerability as well as a means of reducing it. Myth 65: Children and young people are too vulnerable to be exposed to the effects of disaster.

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A Resilience Charter

Emergency Planning

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. Safety’ refers to protection against major hazards such as storms, floods and industrial explosions. Plans should be networked. Preamble 1.1

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Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

Emergency Planning

This is impossible to substantiate, but goods manufactured in a donor country, brought to Haiti by transport from that country and distributed by personnel from the same country would do little to stimulate the Haitian economy. Nowhere more than in Haiti has disaster been made inevitable by the nexus of poverty and vulnerability.