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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. He has since served in over thirty nations worldwide as consultant for United Nations, U.S.

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Breakthrough Innovation to Help Overcome Today’s Public Safety Challenges

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According to the EM-DAT Emergency Event Database, there were 432 natural hazard-related incidents in 2021, compared to an average of 357 annual catastrophes for the period 2001-2020. Asia suffered 40% of all disaster incidents and accounted for 49% of all deaths and 66% of all people affected.

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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. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man." Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 13(11): 2707-2716. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 76(1): 38-49.

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Book Review: The Continuing Storm: Learning from Katrina

Recovery Diva

Authors: Kai Erikson, William R. Studies, Yale University and Lori Peek, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Natural. Hazards Research Center, University of Colorado Boulder. Author of Hyperlocal Organizing: Collaborating for Recovery over Time, forthcoming in November 2022 from Lexington Press. Reviewer : Jack L.

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Mitigating the Impact of Severe Weather

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As severe weather continues to threaten more people and cause greater harm, building resilience against natural hazards and climate threats is paramount: the time for governments and enterprises to act is now. The failure of transportation services amid the extreme cold event pushed authorities to call on military and rescue services.

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Book Review: Disaster and Emergency Management Methods

Recovery Diva

Key words: environmental governance, sustainability, resilience, climate risk, natural hazard, disaster risk reduction, building regulation. Overall, I commend the editor and authors of the text for providing a value-added resource for a variety of stakeholders including students and practitioners. for paperback., for etext USD.