In a speech at the recent CIWEM Surface Water Management Conference, Sir James Bevan KCMG, chief executive of the UK Environment Agency warned about the growing risks that the UK faces from catastrophic surface water flooding.
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has published a new standard to assist organizations with monitoring hazards in order to reduce the impact of resulting incidents.
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has published a new Technical Specification: ‘ISO/TS 22375:2018 Security and resilience - Guidelines for complexity analysis process’.
A meeting of an Emergency Committee convened by the WHO Director-General under the International Health Regulations (IHR) regarding the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo took place on 17th October 2018.
IAEM-USA has announced the winner of the IAEM-USA 2018 Partners in Preparedness Award, which will be presented at the IAEM 66th Annual Conference & EMEX, October 19-24, 2018, in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
With flu season nearly upon us, a new study looks at the factors behind the extremely high mortality of the 1918 flu pandemic and how to prepare for future pandemics.
Angkor, the capital of the Khmer Empire was once the world’s most populous city, but a cascading failure of critical infrastructure resulted in its collapse. A University of Sydney research team says that the ancient city should serve as a warning for modern resilience management.
Researchers have found that Auckland businesses are vulnerable to infrastructure loss caused by natural hazard events, with over three-quarters unable to function when water, communication or electricity was lost in this year’s storm in April.
The Central Bank of Ireland (Banc Ceannais na hÉireann) has told financial firms that they need to improve their approach to resilience and to managing IT risks.
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