MAKING SENSE OF MAYHEM
Understanding the Myths, Maths and Management of Disaster
MAKING SENSE OF MAYHEM
Understanding the Myths, Maths and Management of Disaster
Understanding the Myths, Maths and Management of Disaster
Understanding the Myths, Maths and Management of Disaster
Disasterwise is an online platform for anyone interested in emergency planning, disaster management and disaster risk reduction.
Who dies, who doesn't, and why? Who decides, and how?
If humanitarianism represents how you would like the world to work, then Disasterwise shows you how it actually does.
A social enterprise, Disasterwise connects and informs everyone affected by crisis and disaster, including those who make life-and-death decisions; from professionals involved in 'blue light' emergency response and humanitarian coordination to civil servants, donors, corporate executives, the military, mayors and diplomats.
Our aim is to unpack the myths, maths and management of disasters so that we are no longer held hostage to the false assumptions of the past and can apply risk-informed evidence to challenge the management practices that determine disaster outcomes today.
After all, if we don't know the underlying cause of death and injury, and if we don't have some grasp of the behavioural psychology, disaster epidemiology and health economics involved in managing and reducing disaster risk, how can we know what policy, what practice, what investment has the greatest potential to stop people from dying and suffering unnecessarily? How can we save lives if we don't understand how they're threatened in the first place?
Disasterwise is also where the worlds of emergency response, humanitarian coordination and disaster risk reduction overlap.
It helps shape how disaster managers think and what people affected by disaster do.
If you want to join in the discussion or just stay informed, you can subscribe below.
James S-Barron
Dr Eric Noji, US Centres for Disease Control
Dr Peter Walker, Tufts University
Prof. Richard Gordon, Director Bournemouth University Disast
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