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The Emergency Management Institute at 70

Recovery Diva

The Emergency Management Institute at 70;From Civil Defense to Emergency Management in an Education and Training Institution. This report traces the 70-year history of the Emergency Management Institute (EMI) from the founding of its predecessor in 1951 to the present.

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Book Review: Case Studies in Disaster Recovery

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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. They then provide a structured methodology for conducting facilitated small group exercises in face-to-face and virtual classroom settings for teaching cultural competency curriculum in crisis and emergency management in higher education. Reviewer: Irmak Renda-Tanali, D.Sc.,

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Inclement weather response demands attention

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Despite these challenges, there are ways to ensure more uniformity and reliability around disaster response. By adopting technology into common practices, we can vastly improve our response to all kinds of inclement weather and disasters such as winter storms, hurricanes, and earthquakes.