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The United Kingdom's National Risk Register - 2023 Edition

Emergency Planning

This document was first published in 2008 and has been updated (somewhat irregularly) at roughly two-year intervals. The new version presents 89 major hazards and threats that could potentially disrupt life in the United Kingdom and possibly cause casualties and damage.

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Book Review: The Invention of Disaster

Recovery Diva

Book Review: The Invention of Disaster: Power of Knowledge in Discourses of Hazard and Vulnerability. Publisher : Routledge by Taylor and Francis Group London and New York. The book is part of Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change. Series Editor: Ilan Kelman. For more information: [link].

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Book Review: Case Studies in Disaster Recovery

Recovery Diva

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann, Elsevier, Oxford, UK and Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. However, it is also constrained by the community’s resource availability, adaptability, and existing vulnerability among other things. Volume Editor: Jane Kushma, Ph.D. December 2022. Paperback ISBN: 9780128095744 eBook ISBN: 9780128095362.

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As Populations Grow and New Hazards Emerge, Understanding Global Trends and Research Can Help Us Chart the Course

National Fire Protection Association

The fire underscores global concerns about fire and life safety, particularly among developing nations and areas where housing pressures create additional risks for the poorest and most vulnerable populations. The following blog was originally published October 8, 2021.

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New Book Review

Recovery Diva

Publisher : Routledge – Taylor & Francis Group, New York and London. The editors are experts in the field with many years of conducting research and teaching with particular emphasis on social vulnerability and cultural complexity within the context of emergencies and disasters. link] April 2020.

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Reflections on the Turkish-Syrian Earthquakes of 6th February 2023: Building Collapse and its Consequences

Emergency Planning

Source: Wikimedia Commons An interesting map was published by the US Geological Survey shortly after the Turkish-Syrian earthquakes. [1] Most of them are highly vulnerable to seismic forces. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 15: 931-945. Natural Hazards 109: 161-200. the 'violent' level. [2] Ecemis, S.Z.

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

Emergency Planning

In 1978 the architect Ian Davis published a small book entitled Shelter After Disaster , [iv] which included a number of well-chosen exposés of post-disaster housing as architectural fantasy rather than useful dwelling place. Nowhere more than in Haiti has disaster been made inevitable by the nexus of poverty and vulnerability.