Recovery Diva
MARCH 29, 2023
Since 2016, FEMA’s Natural Hazards Risk Assessment Program has collaborated with federal, local, and state government and private industry to help illustrate areas in the U.S. most at risk for 18 natural hazards. From the HSDL: FEMA Updates Its National Risk Index FEMA has recently updated its National Risk Index.
Emergency Planning
AUGUST 3, 2023
Print 0 46 false false false EN-GB X-NONE AR-SA At the time of writing this, the UK Government has just released the 2023 edition of the National Risk Register (NRR, HM Government 2023). In this, the UK Government is honouring its promise to promote greater transparency in risk assessment. HM Government 2022. HL Paper no.
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Recovery Diva
DECEMBER 30, 2021
ASCE has generously compiled many of the important publications that has given many in the natural hazards research hope that perennial problems of catastrophic destruction of houses and other buildings by tornadoes can be eliminated: [link] These publications are freely available for access and download through 28 February 2022.
Recovery Diva
MAY 7, 2022
The author posits that the attempt to reduce disaster losses by bridging the “nature/hazard versus culture/vulnerability binary” by the Western governments in the lesser developed parts of the world has only been partially effective. Western governments) and prolongs an “imperialist legacy”.
Emergency Planning
APRIL 24, 2022
It is obvious that military instability is likely to complicate and retard the process of getting natural hazard impacts under control. All of these problems have at their root a lack of foresight and an inability to create stable global governance, as well, of course, as simple bad behaviour by national leaders.
Recovery Diva
NOVEMBER 22, 2021
223] “Now populations around the globe again face a risk of catastrophic loss generated by human action—put simply, development-induced vulnerability to natural hazard events, including climate change and sea level rise. But this time governments and communities ought to manage the risk with an acceptable collective strategy.
Emergency Planning
FEBRUARY 9, 2021
It was clear that the US Government was influenced by the suffering and the shortcomings of the response to the tragedy as it built up its own capacity to respond to natural hazard impacts. The initial response to the disaster in Italy was slow and chaotic enough instantly to become a national scandal.
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