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Increase Community Resilience for Extreme Cold Emergencies

CCEM Strategies

It can result in power outages, transportation disruptions, and, most critically, could pose serious health risks to people. Actions to Increase Resilience in Your Community Emergency managers, policymakers, planners, and community leaders play a crucial role in enhancing resilience to extreme cold in their communities.

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7 Best Practices for Emergency Managers

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By recognizing that hazards, including severe weather events, are unpredictable and cannot be completely prevented, emergency managers can instead focus their efforts on promoting a resilient organization. A community is resilient when it can recover from a disaster or other stressor and get back on its feet as quickly as possible.

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ENSURING CANADA’S CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEM IS READY AND RESILIENT

CCEM Strategies

Ensuring Canada’s Critical Infrastructure system is ready and resilient Can you imagine what would happen if an incident such as a natural disaster compromised our transportation, food or even energy Critical Infrastructure (CI) systems? In November 2021, British Columbians didn’t have to.

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A Proposed Strategy to Advocate for Improved Civil Protection in the United Kingdom

Emergency Planning

The lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic, alas largely negative, show that a good civilian system designed to protect the public against major hazards and threats can save thousands of lives and billions in losses and wasted expenditure. It is common to find lags and inertia in civil protection. that are pertinent to the field.

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Unlocking Climate Change Resilience Through Critical Event Management and Public Warning

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There has also been a rise in geophysical events including earthquakes and tsunamis which have killed more people than any of the other natural hazards under review in this report. Disaster risk is becoming systemic with one event overlapping and influencing another in ways that are testing our resilience to the limit,” Mizutori said.

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Book Review: Justice, Equity, and Emergency Management

Recovery Diva

Review by Donald Watson, co-author with Michele Adams of Design for Flooding: Resilience to Climate Change (Wiley 2011). The chapter reviews recovery needs of older adults, those with Limited English Proficiency (LEP), children, and pregnant women, opportunities in housing, health, transportation, employment, and access to services.

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Writing Incident Scenarios: An Operational Resilience Trend Returns

Plan B Consulting

The use of risk scenarios is being pushed by the PRA and the FCA at present, as part of their operational resilience agenda. These could include plans for flooding, fires, tornadoes, disrupted transport links, and even an incident at a nearby nuclear plant. system failures) as well as those, outside of their control (e.g.