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Book Review: Case Studies in Disaster Recovery

Recovery Diva

Review of Case Studies in Disaster Recovery – A Volume in the Disaster and Emergency Management: Case Studies in Adaptation and Innovation Series. Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann, Elsevier, Oxford, UK and Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. and government (a critique of FEMA disaster assistance programs). Pages: 272.

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New Book Review

Recovery Diva

Book Review: Cultural Competency for Emergency and Crisis Management. Editors : Claire Connolly Knox and Brittany “Brie” Haupt Title : Cultural Competency for Emergency and Crisis Management: Concepts, Theories and Case Studies. Publisher : Routledge – Taylor & Francis Group, New York and London. link] April 2020.

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Using Budget Principles to Prepare for Future Pandemics and Other Disasters

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

The prior iteration also included critical focuses like creating a culture of preparedness and simplifying bureaucracy as important nods to basic challenges in disaster management. Amidst all of this, we are overly dependent on a shadow budget for disaster response and relief that no one is planning.