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Risk Management in a Disaster Management Context
Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 1997This 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
2010By 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
2016This 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
2023The 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
2005This 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
2020Disasters 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 +1 more
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Disasters and Disaster Risk Management in South Africa
2018The 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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Disaster management cycle and its application for flood risk reduction in urban areas of Pakistan
Urban Climate, 2021Irfan Ahmad Rana +2 more
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Disaster risk management in Indonesia
2015In the first decade of this century, Indonesia was hit by severe natural disasters. Heavy earthquakes in 2005 and 2006 affected especially areas on the island of Nias, west of Sumatra, and villages in the vicinity of Yogyakarta. Whereas the damages on the traditional architecture in those regions were relatively minor, the reconstruction processes ...
Weichart, Gabriele, Herbig, Ulrike
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