Emergency Planning

MARCH 23, 2022

The increasing vulnerability and dwindling redundancy of life-support systems will aggravate the effect of proliferating failure among critical infrastructure networks. Volunteer work should be encouraged in disaster risk reduction and kindred fields. Preamble 1.1 Unplanned mass migrations will occur. Plans should be networked.

Resilience 244

Resilience All-Hazards Emergency Planning Hazard 244

Emergency Planning

JUNE 9, 2019

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.

Risk Reduction 130

Risk Reduction Natural Hazard All-Hazards Hazard 130

Emergency Planning

MARCH 7, 2019

Myth 20: Field hospitals are particularly useful for treating people injured by sudden impact disasters. Reality: Field hospitals are usually set up too late to treat the injured and end up providing general medicine and continuity of care. Myth 59: Cost-benefit data will convince decision makers to invest in disaster risk reduction.

Hospitality 130

Hospitality All-Hazards Risk Reduction Logistics 130