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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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Book Review: Justice, Equity, and Emergency Management

Recovery Diva

Review by Donald Watson, co-author with Michele Adams of Design for Flooding: Resilience to Climate Change (Wiley 2011). More than twenty authors are represented in this timely book, edited by Alessandra Jerolleman and William L. reviewed in Recovery Diva March 29, 2019 ]. The chapter is based on the writing of the late Rev.

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Leonardo and the Deluge

Emergency Planning

We are now treated to the irony of long queues forming to look at pages and notebooks whose author regarded them as intensely private. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 13(11): 2707-2716. Leonardo wrote for himself, privately, often using his ambidextrous skills to write in mirror image. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8306.1986.tb00102.x

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Unlocking Climate Change Resilience Through Critical Event Management and Public Warning

everbridge

In the period 2000 to 2019, there were 7,348 major recorded disaster events claiming 1.23 The report “The Human Cost of Disasters 2000-2019” also records major increases in other categories including drought, wildfires , and extreme temperature events. million lives, affecting 4.2 Floods and storms were the most prevalent events.”.