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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. All levels of public administration should be required to produce emergency plans and maintain them by means of periodic updates. Preamble 1.1

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A Five-Minute Plea for Better Civil Protection

Emergency Planning

Make emergency planning and management a key profession: develop it nationally. By and large, governments do not want to know about disaster risk reduction. Disaster risk reduction cannot be based on a narrow view of the problem. All vulnerability is contextual (see my writings on that).

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The 2019 Global Assessment Report (GAR)

Emergency Planning

The United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction was born out of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, 1990-2000. On 1 May 2019 it was renamed the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. International Journal for Disaster Risk Reduction 10(B): 403-502. GNCSODR 2015.

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

While not independent of the magnitude of physical forces involved, it is not linearly related to them because it depends on the nature and size of the vulnerabilities that the physical forces act upon. The next question is where to draw the boundaries in the study of disasters and practice of disaster risk reduction.

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

Emergency Planning

A changing situation The eminent anthropologist Anthony Oliver-Smith argued [vi] that in Haiti colonialism has left an enduring legacy of vulnerability to disasters. In his words, "the colonial institutions’ assiduous extraction of surpluses left the population both destitute and vulnerable to hazards for centuries to come."

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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Emergency Planning

Any attempt to relate the current anomie to disaster risk reduction (DRR) must take account of the 'egg hypothesis'. In modern disaster risk reduction, problem solvers abound. Journal of Emergency Management 8(6): 15-27. Social media in disaster risk reduction and crisis management. Alexander, D.E.

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

CCEM Strategies

With this new legislation comes substantial new requirements for community emergency managers – many relating to Indigenous engagement. s DRIPA, local governments are now required to consult and cooperate with neighbouring First Nations governments during all phases of emergency management. In alignment with UNDRIP and B.C.’s