"On November 15, 2022, the Auditor Generals' report entitled Emergency Management in First Nations Communities-Indigenous Services Canada was tabled in Parliament. It issued a scathing review of government incompetence, fiscal mismanagement, and a failed approach to emergency preparedness and disaster mitigation ... The challenges faced by First Nations communities regarding emergency management, mainly the increasing frequency and intensity of natural disasters, calls for real action to save lives and communities from the threats posed to them. Infrastructure "culverts and dikes to prevent seasonal floods" are imperative to the safety and well-being of any community, yet the department has showed complete ineptitude in this respect "--Background, page 28.

"The report, 'Make It Safe: Canada's Obligation to End the First Nations Water Crisis,' documents the impacts of serious and prolonged drinking water and sanitation problems for thousands of indigenous people--known as "First Nations"--living on reserves. It assesses why there are problems with safe water and sanitation on reserves, including a lack of binding water quality regulations, erratic and insufficient funding, faulty or sub-standard infrastructure, and degraded source waters. The federal government's own audits over two decades show a pattern of overpromising and underperforming on water and sanitation for reserves"--Publisher's description.

This special volume contains a selection of papers that were presented as part of the Seventh International Symposium on Natural and Man-Made Hazards (HAZARDS-98), held in Chania, Crete Island, Greece, during May 1998. The Symposium attracted broad international interest because many cases of natural disaster events, such as earthquakes, tsunamis, storm surges, forest fires, etc., that occurred in several parts of the world during the 1990s were presented not only for their physics but also from the point of view of their impact on society and their environmental consequences. Among these cases are the 1997 Red River Valley flood in Canada and the large earthquake of 18 November 1997, in Zakynthos, Greece. In addition, the volume contains contributions that apply advanced statistical methods and artificial intelligence techniques, such as GIS, and systems analysis to approach the description of physical processes, the discrimination of experimental data and the assessment and management of risk. Audience: This volume forms an excellent reference for scientists, students, engineers, the insurance industry, authorities specializing in public safety and natural hazards preparedness and mitigation plans.

"Aware of the magnitude and intensity of the summer 2017 wildfires across Canada and their effects on First Nation communities, the Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs (the Committee) adopted the following motion on 5 October 2017: "That the Committee undertake a study on the response and long-term impacts of this summer's wildfire on first nations communities, as well as emergency management and fire safety in reserve communities; that this study be comprised of no less than four meetings and the committee report its findings to the House." This report summarizes the findings and recommendations of the Committee"--Provided by publisher.

Global security threats have created a complex risk landscape that is challenging and transforming society. These global security issues intersect and influence the political, economic, social, technological, ecological and legal dimensions of the complex risk landscape and are now transborder thereby becoming national security issues. Accessing the innovation space to support safety, security and defence capabilities is critical in order to mitigate new and evolving threats. Through real-world examples of innovation, this book provides a detailed examination of the innovation space as it pertains to the application of S&T to safety and security threats and challenges. This book is of most interest to public and private sector innovators as well as academician and graduate students working in the safety and security domain.

There is no commonly accepted definition of the "Arctic," just as there is no commonly accepted definition of Canada's "North." For the purposes of this paper, given its focus on community assets that relate to emergency preparedness, the Canadian portion of the Arctic Region, as demarcated in the map below from the Arctic Council's Arctic Human Development Report, will be the frame of reference. A key objective of the emergency management component of the Munk-Gordon Arctic Security Program is to give voice to community perspectives and community priorities in relation to emergencies in the Arctic. This paper focuses on community infrastructure and other emergency assets and is intended to supplement and complement other reports associated with this project, including reports from roundtables and workshops conducted in Whitehorse, Yellowknife and Iqaluit.