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Book Review: Case Studies in Disaster Recovery

Recovery Diva

This new book is the first released book (volume) of the four-volume series of Disaster and Emergency Management Case Studies in Adaptation and Innovation with three books forthcoming, each representing one of the four phases of disaster management (mitigation/prevention, preparedness, response, recovery).

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New Book Review

Recovery Diva

disaster management specialist, PDC Global. The editors are experts in the field with many years of conducting research and teaching with particular emphasis on social vulnerability and cultural complexity within the context of emergencies and disasters. Revell; Abdul Samad; Yoon Ah Shin; Susan Spice; and Jungwon Yeo.

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Using Budget Principles to Prepare for Future Pandemics and Other Disasters

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

The prior iteration also included critical focuses like creating a culture of preparedness and simplifying bureaucracy as important nods to basic challenges in disaster management. Amidst all of this, we are overly dependent on a shadow budget for disaster response and relief that no one is planning.

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Common Misconceptions about Disaster

Emergency Planning

Myth 10: After disaster people will not make rational decisions and will therefore inevitably tend to do the wrong thing unless authority guides them. Myth 17: Unburied dead bodies constitute a health hazard. Reality: Not even advanced decomposition causes a significant health hazard.