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Book Review: Constructing Risk

Recovery Diva

Reviewed by Donald Watson, editor of the website theOARSlist.com , Organizations Addressing Resilience and Sustainability, editor of Time-Saver Standards for Urban Design (McGraw-Hill 2001), and co-author with Michele Adams of Design for Flooding: Resilience to Climate Change (Wiley 2011).

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SIA New Member Profile: Concentric Security

Security Industry Association

11, 2001, Concentric Security was born to expand on the need to keep people and property safe. Site characteristics Vulnerability assessments Vector analysis Blast analysis Threat verification Stakeholder input. After the events of Sept. This includes: Assessment. Engineering.

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Coronavirus and China’s Decision-Making in a Crisis

Marketpoint Recall

Despite the unfortunate timing and severity of the coronavirus, the CCP leadership’s crisis response has not drastically deviated from a historic model decision making model that leaves the Party vulnerable to group-think and indecision from internal and external squabbles. One such article in the People’ Daily claimed that the U.S.

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