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Book Review: Case Studies in Disaster Recovery

Recovery Diva

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). December 2022.

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Book Review: Disaster Management and Information Technology

Recovery Diva

Book Review: Disaster Management and Information Technology: Professional Response and Recovery Management in the Age of Disasters. Funding and Contributions: Includes insights into various sources and players promoting innovative IT solutions like the European-funded project FASTER, or the wisdom from authorities like Peter T.

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New Book Review

Recovery Diva

Book Review: Cultural Competency for Emergency and Crisis Management. 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. Publisher : Routledge – Taylor & Francis Group, New York and London. link] April 2020.

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Book Review: Resilience Matters;Flourishing in an Era of Extremes

Recovery Diva

Our intrepid reviewer, Mr. John Plodinec (PhD), has reviewed the new edition of this book. The Introductory essay by Laurie Mazur sets the tone for much of the rest of the book: “ It’s not a stretch to say that we live in an age of extremes. In fact, the heated rhetoric sometimes hurts the author’s credibility.

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New Book Available – Readying the World’s Megacities for Disaster

Recovery Diva

Come Hell or High Fever Readying the World’s Megacities for Disaster Authored by: Russell W. The book is currently available as a free download. It is 498 pages and comes from the Australian National Press.

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Book Review: The Invention of Disaster

Recovery Diva

Book Review: The Invention of Disaster: Power of Knowledge in Discourses of Hazard and Vulnerability. Author : JC Gaillard, Professor of Geography, University of Auckland, New Zealand. The book is part of Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change. Series Editor: Ilan Kelman. For more information: [link].

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Book Review: Justice, Equity, and Emergency Management

Recovery Diva

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. He has since served in over thirty nations worldwide as consultant for United Nations, U.S.