DRI Drive
APRIL 24, 2022
While we’re certainly not done with the pandemic, two years of experience has given us a great deal of insight on how we identify and manage systemic risks, as a new report illustrates. The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) has released a new report that presents findings from five case studies in […].
Recovery Diva
NOVEMBER 22, 2021
Given the depth and breadth of knowledge represented in this book, the conclusions should be and are important, worth shouting from the rooftops, for the author knows of what he writes, as he sums up in his closing chapter: “Risk reduction should be proclaimed as a principal development goal.
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Emergency Planning
AUGUST 31, 2021
What makes the present day different is that, for many kinds of disaster, recurrence intervals have shortened drastically. By and large, governments do not want to know about disaster risk reduction. Disaster risk reduction cannot be based on a narrow view of the problem. They will continue to do so.
Emergency Planning
MAY 30, 2019
The United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction was born out of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, 1990-2000. On 1 May 2019 it was renamed the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. International Journal for Disaster Risk Reduction 10(B): 403-502. GNCSODR 2015.
Recovery Diva
MAY 7, 2022
The book is part of Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change. is a disaster risk management specialist, currently working for the Pacific Disaster Center (PDC Global). It takes a highly philosophical approach but presents constructive criticism and lands on solid ground with useful takeaways.
Emergency Planning
MARCH 23, 2022
The welfare function of disaster risk reduction must be defined by the central state and practised so that adverse impacts do not accentuate inequality in society and the burden of disaster is shared equitably. Volunteer work should be encouraged in disaster risk reduction and kindred fields. The citizen 4.1 Foresight 6.1
Emergency Planning
JUNE 9, 2019
Floods, storms and earthquakes dominate the picture, with the ever-present possibility of very large eruptions or extra-terrestrial impacts. (b) The next question is where to draw the boundaries in the study of disasters and practice of disaster risk reduction. The health sciences also have a different perspective (Myrtle et al.
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