Emergency Planning
AUGUST 3, 2023
The new version presents 89 major hazards and threats that could potentially disrupt life in the United Kingdom and possibly cause casualties and damage. It explains its own rationale and presents the 89 'risks' one by one. The 2023 NRR is clear and concise.
Emergency Planning
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Many of the news media that have reported the disaster have presented it as the result of inescapable terrestrial forces. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 15: 931-945. Natural Hazards 109: 161-200. While that cannot be negated, it is less than half of the story. Ecemis, S.Z. Korkmaz, M.H. Arslan and H.H.
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Emergency Planning
MAY 30, 2019
Unofficial voices have suggested that the 'cure to damage ratio' for natural hazards is 1:43. Consequently, the greatest present-day challenge is to achieve change from the local level against rigid power structures and massive vested interests at the national and globalised levels. For the sake of survival, it must be done.
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.
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.
Recovery Diva
MAY 12, 2022
Richard Krajeski, presented with transcribed commentary by a dozen participants of a special session held in his memory as part of the July 2020 Natural Hazard Workshop. A special treat in the book, is found in Chapter 8, “The Underside of Epiphany: Wandering Wonderings.” The chapter is based on the writing of the late Rev.
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. This rather bizarre and dysfunctional strategy is purely the result of the pattern of availability of money.
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