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More on the Covid-19 Academic Gold Rush

Emergency Planning

This reminded me that perhaps 70 per cent of academic publishing is for personnel reasons (to get a job, keep a job, obtain a salary raise, or achieve promotion). I cleave to the old-fashioned view that publishing should take place to further the sharing of good ideas. This also exists outside the academic field. Gaillard, J-C.

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Academic Publishing and Malpractice

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As the number of people wanting to publish in academic journals continues to rise, malpractice proliferates, in some cases to epidemic proportions. It usually represents a failure to consider what the journal would be willing to publish. Some of the larger academic publishers automatically verify authorship.

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The 2019 Global Assessment Report (GAR)

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These may be published separately in an academic journal. An example of this for the 2013 GAR can be found in Di Mauro (2014). Disaster Planning and Emergency Management, 18 July 2017. Global probabilistic assessment of risk from natural hazards for the Global Assessment Report 2013 (GAR13). link] Di Mauro, M. (ed.)

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

The study of disasters is a 'lateral discipline' that, to varying degrees embraces at least 42 other disciplines and professions (Alexander 2013). University College London Press, London, and Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 632 pp. Approaches to emergency management teaching at the master’s level. References Alexander, D.E.

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Business Continuity Learning – Where do you start?

Plan B Consulting

This could be from formal learning, using documents such as the Good Practice Guidelines 2013, as well as from the experience of others. In an incident, we should be advising managers at all levels on our organisation’s response and we can only do so if we have learned from others what works and doesn’t.

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Business Continuity Learning – Where do you start?

Plan B Consulting

This could be from formal learning, using documents such as the Good Practice Guidelines 2013, as well as from the experience of others. In an incident, we should be advising managers at all levels on our organisation’s response and we can only do so if we have learned from others what works and doesn’t.

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‘Adaptive Business Continuity: A New Approach’

Plan B Consulting

Whilst Charlie was on holiday last week, he read a recently published book about Adaptive Business Continuity. In the newly published book ‘Adaptive Business Continuity: A New Approach’, by David Lindstedt and Mark Armour, doing away with the BIA is one of the key elements in their business continuity manifesto.