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Community Emergency Managers: Maximize Impact with B.C.’s New Indigenous Engagement Funding

CCEM Strategies

In the face of escalating climate-related emergencies, the Province of B.C.’s s recent allocation of $18 million for Indigenous engagement is a critical opportunity for communities to increase preparedness through consultation and collaboration and meet new emergency management legislative requirements.

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

By the 1990s, the emergence of civil protection from the matrix of civil defence (Alexander 2002) had broadened the scope to the extent that there was a need for a more functional set of categories. Floods, storms and earthquakes dominate the picture, with the ever-present possibility of very large eruptions or extra-terrestrial impacts. (b)

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Hypercomplexity: Which Incidents Should We Be Preparing For?

Plan B Consulting

Those who live in earthquake zones are very aware of the risks involved and have emergency plans in place should they ever get caught up in one. I am currently doing the Institute of Strategic Risk Management’s (ISRM) level 6 course, and I have been reading about why incidents occur.

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Hypercomplexity: Which Incidents Should We Be Preparing For?

Plan B Consulting

Those who live in earthquake zones are very aware of the risks involved and have emergency plans in place should they ever get caught up in one. I am currently doing the Institute of Strategic Risk Management’s (ISRM) level 6 course, and I have been reading about why incidents occur.

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‘Adaptive Business Continuity: A New Approach’

Plan B Consulting

In this bulletin, he presents his thoughts on the new methodology developed by David Lindstedt and Mark Armour. The benefit of this book for me, as a business continuity practitioner, is within the tactical and operational insights and ideas it gives, rather than the strategic change I suspect the authors would like.

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‘Adaptive Business Continuity: A New Approach’

Plan B Consulting

In this bulletin, he presents his thoughts on the new methodology developed by David Lindstedt and Mark Armour. The benefit of this book for me, as a business continuity practitioner, is within the tactical and operational insights and ideas it gives, rather than the strategic change I suspect the authors would like.