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Foresight

Emergency Planning

The cascade is a result of the progression of a shock through different kinds of vulnerability. It shows up failure to avoid provocation between states, failure to predict and mitigate conflict, failure to make sufficient progress in the transition away from dependency on fossil fuels, and failure to resolve disputes in the global arena.

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Counting Costs: The Impact of a Government Shutdown on the Security Industry

Security Industry Association

Department of Defense and four other major departments, the looming shutdown could affect all federal agencies dependent on appropriations, making it more similar to the October 2013 shutdown that lasted 16 days. What is a government shutdown?

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The hidden costs of shadow IT: How unsanctioned tech impacts your budget

Online Computers

In 2013, thieves stole two laptops from Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey (Horizon BCBSNJ), the state’s largest healthcare provider. How to mitigate the risks of shadow IT It's important to understand that the use of shadow IT often arises from genuine and legitimate employee needs not met by the official IT solutions.

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The 2019 Global Assessment Report (GAR)

Emergency Planning

An example of this for the 2013 GAR can be found in Di Mauro (2014). Globally, about a thousand times as much is spent on hydrocarbon exploration and extraction than on the mitigation of the climate change that results from burning fossil fuels (Mechler et al. These may be published separately in an academic journal. GNCSODR 2015.

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Using Budget Principles to Prepare for Future Pandemics and Other Disasters

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

Expansion of pre-disaster mitigation funding such as through the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program, and new funding for infrastructure resilience embedded in the bi-partisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act are also steps in the right direction. And that is just the federal programs.

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You Can’t Win!

Plan B Consulting

BCT was the first company to teach this new course based on the recently published Good Practice Guidelines (GPG) 2013. I suggest that these issues are discussed internally or even exercised, so that the organisation can think through where they are vulnerable, and how they should respond before an event occurs.

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You Can’t Win!

Plan B Consulting

BCT was the first company to teach this new course based on the recently published Good Practice Guidelines (GPG) 2013. I suggest that these issues are discussed internally or even exercised, so that the organisation can think through where they are vulnerable, and how they should respond before an event occurs.