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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

The next question is where to draw the boundaries in the study of disasters and practice of disaster risk reduction. However, again, there is a need to draw a line and thus to regard these as parallel or kindred phenomena, with which there is much interchange, but they are not within the fold of disaster risk reduction sensu stricto.

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Unlocking Climate Change Resilience Through Critical Event Management and Public Warning

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trillion in global economic losses,” according to a report conducted by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR). Disaster risk is becoming systemic with one event overlapping and influencing another in ways that are testing our resilience to the limit,” Mizutori said. Planning for the Future, Together.

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Four Questions About the Covid-19 Pandemic

Emergency Planning

Can we draw on expertise in the field of disaster risk management? Under such circumstances, disaster risk management is vitally important, especially as one is dealing with a medical emergency and a social, economic and psychological one. Emergency planning is an essential tool in the response to a pandemic.

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