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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). He has served as consultant for United Nations, U.S.

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Top 10 Resources to Help You Become a BCM Ninja 

MHA Consulting

Much of this change was propelled by the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.) A great place to get an overview of the whole BC field, from Program Administration to Exercises to Risk Management and Mitigation. Back then, finding information on how to do anything in BC and IT disaster recovery (IT/DR) was impossible.

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Fire and Rain: Adapting to an Era of Global Instability 

MHA Consulting

Geopolitical risk is arguably at the highest level it’s been in 50 years. Try a Dose of Risk Management A World in Tumult There’s a consensus among the key executives I’ve talked to recently: the current global environment contains more risk for organizations than at any time in the last half century. counterparts.