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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: Disaster and Emergency Management Methods

Recovery Diva

Publisher: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York and London. Key words: environmental governance, sustainability, resilience, climate risk, natural hazard, disaster risk reduction, building regulation. All too often such literature and texts lack gender diversity and key perspectives from women leaders. for paperback.,

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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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New Book Review

Recovery Diva

Publisher : Routledge – Taylor & Francis Group, New York and London. The book has sixteen (16) chapters of which the first four were written by the editors, and the remaining twelve (12) each written by different authors. Book Review: Cultural Competency for Emergency and Crisis Management. link] April 2020.

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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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The Vital Role of Fire Inspectors and Fire Inspector Certification

National Fire Protection Association

According to the latest “Fire Loss in the United States” report, published by NFPA in September 2022, there were roughly 1.35 Looking at this problem through the lens of the NFPA Fire & Life Safety Ecosystem™, it will take all of us working together to create positive change to improve those numbers. What is a fire inspector?

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Book Review: The Continuing Storm: Learning from Katrina

Recovery Diva

Authors: Kai Erikson, William R. Hazards Research Center, University of Colorado Boulder. Publisher: University of Texas Press Austin Texas. Author of Hyperlocal Organizing: Collaborating for Recovery over Time, forthcoming in November 2022 from Lexington Press. Review of: The Continuing Storm: Learning from Katrina.

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