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Book Review: Justice, Equity, and Emergency Management

Recovery Diva

More than twenty authors are represented in this timely book, edited by Alessandra Jerolleman and William L. Waugh is editor in chief of the Emerald Book Series, “Community, Environment and Disaster Reduction Management,” of which this book is Volume 25. reviewed in Recovery Diva March 29, 2019 ].

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Book Review: The Continuing Storm: Learning from Katrina

Recovery Diva

Hazards Research Center, University of Colorado Boulder. This book is the 8th book in the University of Texas’ Katrina Bookshelf series edited by Kai Erikson. The book also recaps the legacy of race in the Americas and its impact on both media coverage and government response during and after Katrina. Former U.S.

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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Emergency Planning

What does all this mean for Britain? Oddly, it was sidelined during the pandemic as the Cabinet Office Minister, Michael Gove, judged it to be 'too extreme'. Interestingly, since the first edition in 2008, pandemics have been regarded as the leading risk in terms of their probability of occurrence and seriousness of consequences.