The promulgation of the South African Disaster Management Act No. 57 of 2002 and the National Disaster Management Policy Framework of 2005 placed South Africa at the international forefront by integrating disaster risk reduction into all spheres of government through a decentralised approach. Yet, good...
A critical analysis of the South African Disaster Management Act and Policy Framework 2005 placed South Africa at the international forefront by integrating disaster risk reduction into all spheres of government through a decentralised approach. ... DV Niekerk - 《Disasters》 被引量: 13发表: 2014年...
This article describes a dataset of community perspectives on living conditions and disaster risk management in Khan Road, a non-serviced informal settlement, located in Pietermaritzburg, the capital of KwaZulu-Natal province in South Africa. The data were collected by local community researchers via ...
Disaster risk reduction and disaster risk management https://www.preventionweb.net/understanding-disaster-risk/key-concepts/disaster-risk-reduction-disaster-risk-management A Study On Landslide Events In The Western Ghats: Assessing Causes, Impacts, And Strategies For Building Resilience https://www.rese...
Developing a disaster recovery plan should start with a risk assessment of potential catastrophic events and their impact on IT systems and business processes. Then IT and line-of-business teams, supported by management, should rank assets and systems by their importance and assign DR strategies to...
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Infectious disease outbreaks are increasingly recognised as events that exacerbate impacts or prolong recovery following disasters. Yet, our understanding of the frequency, geography, characteristics and risk factors of post-disaster disease outbreaks gl
The NSW State Emergency Management Committee (SEMC), established under the State Emergency and Rescue Management Act 1989 No 165 (SERM Act), ensures NSW has a system to cope with disasters. At the heart of the National Risk Assessment Guidelines that the NSW government and its emergency ...
9). Although attention and resources are concentrated on responding to disasters, the disaster management cycle (Fig. 1) is commonly conceptualized as having four overlapping and interconnected phases focusing on risk management (prevention and preparedness phases) and crisis management (response and ...
An accepted prerequisite to planning, therefore, relies on understanding of environmental risks, with risk management being commonly understood to rely on risk characterization. Environmental Risk Assessment (ERA), defined via the concept of acceptable risk, is an outcome of bivariate input comprised of...