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Book Review: Resilience Matters;Flourishing in an Era of Extremes

Recovery Diva

Once again, Claire has asked me to review the latest in the Resilience Matters series – this one subtitled Flourishing in an Era of Extremes. In fact, the heated rhetoric sometimes hurts the author’s credibility. One of the authors states that a group called Catalyst Miami found temperatures in poorer sections of Miami 30(!)

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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Emergency Planning

In some instances, notably the Manchester Arena bombing and the Grenfell Tower fire (both in 2017), the shortcomings have been nothing less than scandalous (Kerslake 2018, Moore-Bick 2019). Billions will have to be spent on making the country's infrastructure more resilient against this sort of event. These are rather ambiguous bodies.

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TSPs: Making the Case to Invest in Risk and Resiliency

Fusion Risk Management

There are even emerging regulatory requirements on the horizon such as the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) that will extend regulatory reach to some technology and data service providers. Investing in Risk and Resiliency is the Right Thing to Do. percentage points from January 2017 to January 2022.”

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SIA New Member Profile: Tedee

Security Industry Association

The company is based in Warsaw, Poland, and was established in 2017. The views and opinions expressed in guest posts and/or profiles are those of the authors or sources and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Security Industry Association.

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Dynamic Risks: Working Definitions and Implications for Risk Management Teams

On Solve

While leading resilience practitioners currently consider some aspects of dynamic risks in their programs, we recommend that these concepts be threaded throughout the design and management of all resilience programs in order to achieve the best possible outcome from every incident. 1-2017 standard can be found here.

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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. 90 programs across 20 agencies is simply too many.

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Business Continuity 2025 – What Will Future Incidents Look Like?

Plan B Consulting

I aim to cover what incidents might look like, how the business continuity process might change, how resilience might develop and how the role of the business continuity manager could change. Again, the devastating hurricanes in the Caribbean in 2017 can be seen as part of this change.