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Five Top Sessions for Security & Public Safety Practitioners at ISC East

Security Industry Association

This session will dive into the applications of video analytics across various industries and explore how businesses can harness this technology to improve the end-user experience. As we enjoy the benefits of an interconnected world, we must prioritize risk reduction investments and resilience efforts.”

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Book Review: Disaster and Emergency Management Methods

Recovery Diva

Disaster and Emergency Management Methods; Social Science Approaches in Application by Jason Rivera. Key words: environmental governance, sustainability, resilience, climate risk, natural hazard, disaster risk reduction, building regulation. Publisher: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York and London.

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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Emergency Planning

Any attempt to relate the current anomie to disaster risk reduction (DRR) must take account of the 'egg hypothesis'. Its antidotes are thought, reasoning, action, activism, and the application of ethics and morality. In modern disaster risk reduction, problem solvers abound. Alexander, D.E.