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Disaster Risk Management

2013
Disaster risk management is a comprehensive approach involving the identification of threats due to hazards; processing and analyzing threats; understanding people’s vulnerability; assessing communities’ resilience and coping capacity; developing strategies for future risk reduction; and building up capacities and operational skills to implement the ...
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Risk Management in a Disaster Management Context

Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 1997
This paper discusses how the adoption of a systematic risk management framework can enhance disaster management. In the analysis of risk, a focus on the interactions between sources of risk and elements at risk, rather than a pre‐occupation with hazards, adds more value to management.
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Natural Disaster Risk Management

2010
By definition, natural disasters are surprises, and cause inconvenience and damage. Some things we do to ourselves, such as revolutions, terrorist attacks, and wars. Some things nature does to us, to include hurricanes, tornados, volcanic eruptions, and tsunamis. Some disasters are caused by combinations of human and natural causes.
David L. Olson, Desheng Wu
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Risk management: sociotechnological risks and disasters

2016
This chapter is about managing sociotechnological risks. It was in the 1970s that the notion of ‘high-risk’ (or ‘safety critical’) systems started to be distinguished and grouped into an independent category including industries such as the nuclear, aviation, marine, petrochemical or the railways.
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Disaster Risk Management in Turkey

2023
The 1992 Erzincan earthquake was the first event for which the Turkish government approached the World Bank and asked for a loan for the recovery process. This long-term, low-interest credit loan borrowing from a multilateral institution was extended to flood recovery after the devastating 1998 Western Black Sea flood.
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Indicators of Disaster Risk and Risk Management

2005
This document is the summary report of the IDB-sponsored system of disaster risk and risk management indicators presented at the World Conference on Disaster Reduction in Kobe, Japan, 2005. The indices estimate disaster risk loss, distribution, vulnerability and management for 12 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Risk Factor in Disaster Policy and Risk Management in Disaster Legislation

2020
Disasters have been one of the most important problem of humanity throughout history due to loss of lives and damages to the economic and social structure. It’s an interdisciplinary phenomenon that needs to be addressed in the literature with its physical, cultural, economic and social aspects and a policy area nedds to be managed in the governements ...
AZİMLİ ÇİLİNGİR, Gülcan, ÖRÇEN GÜLER, İlke   +1 more
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Disasters and Disaster Risk Management in South Africa

2018
The connection between sustainable development and disaster risk reduction is widely accepted. Rapid urbanisation and climate change are both likely to increase the frequency and intensity of disasters, with the urban poor in the Global South at greatest risk.
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Risk, crisis and disaster management in hospitality and tourism: a comparative review

International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, 2021
Brent Ritchie, Yawei Jiang
exaly  

When disaster management agencies create disaster risk: a case study of the US's Federal Emergency Management Agency

Disaster Prevention and Management, 2021
Aaron Clark-Ginsberg, Sonny S Patel
exaly