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DRI Drive
JULY 19, 2022
As a leading resource in disaster recovery and business continuity, DRI International has updated its written voluntary commitment to the United Nations Office of Disaster Risk Recovery’s Sendai Framework 2015-2030.
DisasterDoc
MAY 23, 2021
The post Tornado Risk Reduction – An American Success Story appeared first on DisasterDoc. Risk Reminders disaster risk reduction disasters tornado
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Emergency Planning
JULY 5, 2019
Like any field of study, disaster risk reduction needs lateral thinking. In 1973, when I was a young undergraduate, I was taught the rudiments of the philosophy, theory and methodology of science.
DRI Drive
MAY 9, 2022
A recent United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction report highlighted a sharp increase in disasters with the vast majority of effects borne by low-income countries. The post Can Sunlight Reduce Climate Risks?
Emergency Planning
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
In disaster risk reduction circles, there is an almost desperate reliance on 'community' and a strong growth in studies and plans to "involve the community" in facing up to risks and impacts (Berkes and Ross 2013).
National Fire Protection Association
OCTOBER 18, 2022
If you want to make your state a safer place through community risk reduction (CRR) but struggle with the time and resources to take a new community risk assessment (CRA) project, CRAIG 1300 is the cutting-edge tool to help you do it.
Crisis Response Journal
NOVEMBER 6, 2018
Ahead of the 2018 European Forum on Disaster Risk Reduction in Rome, Rosalind Cook, Professor Sirkku Juhola and Jaroslav Mysiak take a look at the pressing need for Europe to meet the challenges of a changing climate. By Rosalind Cook, Professor Sirkku Juhola and Jarosla
Crisis Response Journal
MARCH 17, 2016
Today (March 18, 2016) the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR) is celebrating its first birthday. The Sendai Framework was the first 2030 development agreement adopted by governments at the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduc
DRI Drive
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
In Asia and the Pacific, natural and biological hazards are converging, creating cascading risks on populations and infrastructures, according to a new report from the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). Asia-Pacific Disaster Report 2021: Resilience in a Riskier World” looks at risks in the region under current, moderate, […]. News asia pacific Climate change ESCAP Risk Reduction United Nations
Emergency Planning
DECEMBER 14, 2020
Amid all the risks associated with a pandemic the policing function is important. These need to be measured, proportional to the risk and applied with fairness and a degree of tolerance. Can we draw on expertise in the field of disaster risk management?
Crisis Response Journal
AUGUST 22, 2021
August 2021: This week, the CRJ will mark the anniversary of this event with a series of blogs looking at at gender-based violence, disaster risk reduction in the camps and the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic
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 post COVID-19: 5 Lessons Learned in Understanding and Managing Risk appeared first on DRI Drive.
Crisis Response Journal
AUGUST 25, 2021
August 2021: In the second part of this CRJ blog series, Hasibul Mannan explains the need for disaster risk reduction to focus on multiple hazards and outlines what measures are being – and could be – put in place to do so
Recovery Diva
JUNE 3, 2022
FEMA is the first fund to invest in companies worldwide that are engaged in sustainable recovery and risk reduction efforts related to natural disasters. FEMA ETF Invests in Natural Disaster Recovery Efforts. Procure Holdings LLC subsidiary ProcureAM launched the Procure Disaster Recovery Strategy ETF (FEMA), which begins trading today on the Nasdaq Exchange.
Recovery Diva
NOVEMBER 22, 2021
Constructing Risk: Disaster, Development, and the Built Environment by Stephen O. Constructing Risk is a fully developed treatise on the current state of art of disaster risk and “development,” represented by planning, design and construction of the built environment. Stakeholders may not now consider disaster risk reduction the domain of development, but unwittingly development has become the domain for survival of human beings.” [p.
Crisis Response Journal
NOVEMBER 6, 2018
Ahead of the 2018 2018 Forum on Disaster Risk Reduction, Erling Kvernevik, Teresa Rubino and Rosalind Cook say that delivering a financial system that reduces disaster risk is a critical contribution to a more sustainable and safer Europe Direct and indi By Erling Kvernevik, Teresa Rubino and Rosalind Cook
Crisis Response Journal
JULY 24, 2014
The next issue of Crisis Response Journal marks a decade of publishing, bringing the world's emergency responders and planners, business continuity and disaster risk reduction experts together to share experience and learn from each other. By Emily Hough
National Fire Protection Association
JUNE 8, 2022
CRR workshop was held at the NFPA Conference & Expo® (C&E) today, guiding participants through the community risk assessment (CRA) process. From there, fire departments can create a a community risk reduction (CRR) plan that serves as a roadmap for effectively addressing those safety issues.
Recovery Diva
NOVEMBER 16, 2021
Key words: environmental governance, sustainability, resilience, climate risk, natural hazard, disaster risk reduction, building regulation. Disaster and Emergency Management Methods; Social Science Approaches in Application by Jason Rivera. Publisher: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York and London. ISBN-hardcover: 978 0 367 42398 8 ISBN-electronic: 978 0 367 82394 8; Pages: 381; on-line price $52.95 for paperback., 172.55 for hardback, $42.36 for etext USD.
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.
Recovery Diva
MAY 7, 2022
The book is part of Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change. Keywords: Disaster; hazard paradigm; vulnerability paradigm; climate change; risk; disaster risk reduction; capacity building; resilience; Sendai Framework; Paris Agreement; enlightenment; modernity; postcolonial; Western hegemony; neoliberalism; pantometry; dispositif; anthropological particularism; participatory pluralism; discourse; power; governance.
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. Preamble 1.1
Crisis Response Journal
JUNE 7, 2015
The disaster risk reduction community is increasingly emphasising the vital need to include marginalised - and the most vulnerable - groups so as to help build greater resilience, while other groups are looking to the role of women to help counter violent By Luavut Zahid
Crisis Response Journal
JANUARY 1, 2015
Paola Albrito looks forward to the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Sendai City, Japan, which takes place in March this year providing her thoughts on the Zero Draft document that has been issued ahead of this year’s event.
Crisis Response Journal
DECEMBER 9, 2014
News: New Editorial Advisory Panel Member, Paola Albrito, Head of the UN office for Disaster Risk Reduction, Europe; UK/US Cybersecurity initiative; Catastrophic mass mortali By Emily HoughThe winter edition of the CRJ has now gone to press. This is what's inside.
Emergency Planning
JUNE 9, 2019
The next question is where to draw the boundaries in the study of disasters and practice of disaster risk reduction. This should not be used as an excuse to reduce the priority of disaster risk reduction, but it does not mean that DRR should include basic quotidian road safety.
Emergency Planning
AUGUST 31, 2021
In the light of climate change, technological risks and migration, we will soon need civil protection systems that are an order of magnitude more powerful than those that we have now. By and large, governments do not want to know about disaster risk reduction.
everbridge
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
Across the globe, both public and private sectors are more concerned than ever about addressing climate change and its associated risks. “In trillion in global economic losses,” according to a report conducted by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR).
MHA Consulting
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
Many companies spend millions of dollars implementing risk mitigation controls but are kept from getting their money’s worth by a disconnected, piecemeal approach. Successful risk mitigation requires that a central authority supervise controls following a coherent strategy.
Emergency Planning
AUGUST 20, 2021
Researchers have identified four goals [vii] : secure land occupation, sufficient and resilient livelihoods, robust and resilient ecosystems, and adequate disaster risk and emergency management.
Alternative Resiliency Services Corp
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
The risks are too great for the investment not to be of value. ” Although early-stage orgs must get runway under them early, they still must manage Risk. One business outage may not only cripple a company’s operation, it might be a red flag to investors that the company might not be resilient enough to take a risk on. Streamlined Business Continuity can be implemented for pennies on the dollar and still get significant risk reduction.
FS-ISAC
MARCH 2, 2022
Free spending cycles may also result in generic capability building and purchasing of unnecessary tools, rather than a focus on real risk reduction value. Success is Measured by Risk Reduction, Not Capability Building. Effectively Presenting Cyber Risk.
Reciprocity
DECEMBER 20, 2022
They provide management and the board’s audit committee with objective assurance about the design and operation of the organization’s governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) program and whether that program functions effectively throughout the enterprise. Operational risk.
Reciprocity
DECEMBER 21, 2022
Deciphering the various numbers can be confusing at first, but each standard is numbered and deals with a specific facet of managing your company’s information security risk management efforts. Third, create a project plan and a project risk register. Conduct a Risk Assessment.
MHA Consulting
MARCH 2, 2023
Reducing risk is at the heart of everything we do as business continuity professionals. This week’s blog post will spell out the key concepts relating to this all-important goal; call it “The Ultimate Guide to Residual Risk.” This leftover risk is the residual risk.
Alternative Resiliency Services Corp
APRIL 23, 2020
Risk Management should not be political. I’ve spoken on the Psychology of Risk at executive venues across four continents. We now see three Cognitive Biases in play as our leaders struggle to understand and manage the risk. Let’s get to Managing this Risk
Emergency Planning
FEBRUARY 9, 2021
The year 1980 was something of a watershed in the field of disaster risk reduction (or disaster management as it was then known). Laviano, Province of Avellino, 1984 Monday 23rd November 2020 at 19:34 and 52.8
Emergency Planning
AUGUST 22, 2019
I am the founding editor of the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (IJDRR), which began publishing in August 2012 with just four papers. Even then, there was the lurking sensation that something vital might slip under the radar, but the risks were much smaller.
everbridge
MARCH 6, 2023
With the growing concern over climate change, organizations are starting to take notice of the risks that come with it. Reviewing and updating risk management processes to ensure they are inclusive of climate change risks.
Emergency Planning
MAY 27, 2019
Resilience and disaster risk reduction: an etymological journey. Leonardo da Vinci: Storm over a town in the mountains.
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