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Book Review: Case Studies in Disaster Recovery

Recovery Diva

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann, Elsevier, Oxford, UK and Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Each chapter is written by (a) a different author(s). The discussions are based on many years of practical experience and/or research conducted by the authors. Volume Editor: Jane Kushma, Ph.D. December 2022. Pages: 272.

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Book Review: Justice, Equity, and Emergency Management

Recovery Diva

Emerald Publishing Ltd. 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. Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management.

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Is it Possible to Keep Up with the Literature?

Emergency Planning

I am the founding editor of the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (IJDRR), which began publishing in August 2012 with just four papers. Two years ago, the journal published its first issue to contain 100 papers. This makes it all the more likely that earlier work will unknowingly be repeated.

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ISO 27001 Certification Requirements & Standards

Reciprocity

The ISO 27001 family, published by the International Organization for Standardization, includes a set of standards for information security. Rather than implementing controls as a checkbox activity, risk-driven organizations proactively choose controls that best mitigate their risks. What is ISO 27001? Select and Apply Controls.

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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.