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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).

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New Book Review

Recovery Diva

disaster management specialist, PDC Global. 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. The framework introduced by the editors is applied to all the case studies covered by varying authors in the rest of the chapters.

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A brief critique of UK emergency arrangements in the light of the Covid-19 crisis

Emergency Planning

Absurdly, it is not treated as a profession and has no career progression or higher education requirements (I should add that the field has an intellectual history that stretches back 101 years). The 2004 Civil Contingencies Act has been sidelined throughout the Coronavirus disaster.