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Increase Community Resilience for Extreme Cold Emergencies

CCEM Strategies

Especially vulnerable populations. During extreme cold events, people in rural communities may experience increased difficulty in accessing services such as healthcare, emergency shelters, and reliable critical infrastructure like telecommunication, transportation, and day-to-day supply chains (food, fuel, imported goods).

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New Book Review

Recovery Diva

This textbook provides a multitude of case studies each written by academics who are actively teaching and/or have developed curriculum in the fields of crisis, disaster, and/or emergency management with a specific focus on vulnerable populations that are the weakest links in the hazard-risk chain.

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Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

Emergency Planning

As bodies piled up on street corners and in courtyards there was no time to count them all. Fortunately, despite continual disruption of healthcare, the effect of Covid-19 has so far been limited (600 deaths in a population of 11.5 Nowhere more than in Haiti has disaster been made inevitable by the nexus of poverty and vulnerability.

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Risk Assessment vs Risk Analysis

Reciprocity

A risk assessment evaluates all the potential risks to your organization’s ability to do business. Many organizations use risk management and compliance software to help them manage all the tasks associated with risk assessment, analysis, and management. Various types of hazards must be considered. Economic risk.

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Herrera Unplugged: How to Hamstring Your BC Consultant

MHA Consulting

I guess you could say we are Boy Scouts, or nerds, or idealists; when it comes to business continuity, all three are true. All that’s required is to allow your senior management to remain in the dark about what BC is and why it’s important for the organization to become good at it. We practice what we preach and believe in what we do.

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Racial Disparities and COVID-19

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

As the world scrambles each week to grapple with the seemingly insurmountable number of positive cases and deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic, public policy is failing some of America’s most vulnerable communities. all of these percentages of positive cases are current as of 5/13/2020). of the population overall, a ratio of 2.13.

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5 Steps to Implement Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)

Reciprocity

Your ERM program should encompass all aspects of risk management and response in all business processes, including cybersecurity, finance, human resources, risk management audit , privacy, compliance, and natural disasters. A critical step in any ERM program is an assessment of your enterprise’s vulnerabilities.