Emergency Planning

MARCH 23, 2022

Safety’ refers to protection against major hazards such as storms, floods and industrial explosions. Security’ involves protection against major threats, such as terrorist activity. All levels of public administration should be required to produce emergency plans and maintain them by means of periodic updates.

Resilience 244

Resilience All-Hazards Emergency Planning Hazard 244

Emergency Planning

MAY 6, 2024

The lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic, alas largely negative, show that a good civilian system designed to protect the public against major hazards and threats can save thousands of lives and billions in losses and wasted expenditure. Standardised,"all hazards" emergency planning methodology applied at all levels.

All-Hazards 130

All-Hazards Hazard Risk Reduction Emergency Response 130

Emergency Planning

JUNE 9, 2019

The next question is where to draw the boundaries in the study of disasters and practice of disaster risk reduction. Warming has already begun to have a substantial effect on the magnitude and frequency of meteorological hazards. Disaster risk reduction policy is heavily influenced by the class of disaster involved.

Risk Reduction 130

Risk Reduction Natural Hazard All-Hazards Hazard 130

everbridge

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

trillion in global economic losses,” according to a report conducted by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR). 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.

Resilience 142

Resilience Risk Reduction Management Command Center 142

Emergency Planning

AUGUST 20, 2021

In Haiti, a third of the population lacks secure access to food. In his words, "the colonial institutions’ assiduous extraction of surpluses left the population both destitute and vulnerable to hazards for centuries to come." Stability, good governance and democratic participation are essential ingredients of disaster risk reduction.

Vulnerability 174

Vulnerability All-Hazards Risk Reduction Government 174

Emergency Planning

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The year 1980 was something of a watershed in the field of disaster risk reduction (or disaster management as it was then known). The incessant, cumulative hammer-blow effect of disasters of all kinds on modern society had begun to stimulate a consistent demand for greater safety and security.

Natural Hazard 130

Natural Hazard All-Hazards Automotive Risk Reduction 130