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Book Review: Justice, Equity, and Emergency Management

Recovery Diva

Review by Donald Watson, co-author with Michele Adams of Design for Flooding: Resilience to Climate Change (Wiley 2011). 3 …requires full harnessing of the communities transformative and adaptive capacity in order to reduce risks for the future…working to eliminate existing patterns of unequal distribution of risk. #4

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Business, Interrupted: Peeling Back the Layers of Supply Chain Resilience

Castellan

Take, for example, industry response after the devastating earthquake and tsunami affected Japan in 2011. Can it kill business instantly or can you keep functioning at reduced capacity? Think of it as the veins pumping a lifeline through your organization. If one vein fails, what is its impact on the rest of your operations?

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Using Budget Principles to Prepare for Future Pandemics and Other Disasters

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

The framework changed with the Budget Control Act in 2011, which led to the emergence of a more focused and proactive funding model from 2012-2020, and a lessened reliance on reactive supplemental appropriations. The Budget Control Act of 2011 (BCA; P.L. 1] [link]. [2]

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Inflation Considerations for Risk Managers and Insurance Buyers

Risk Management Monitor

The conflict in Ukraine was already an inflection point for the insurance markets, with hardening rates and capacity changes anticipated in some specific classes as a result. Use data and rely on the experience of management that survived the Great Recession of 2008 to 2011 to help navigate these new concerns.