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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 editors are experts in the field with many years of conducting research and teaching with particular emphasis on social vulnerability and cultural complexity within the context of emergencies and disasters. Revell; Abdul Samad; Yoon Ah Shin; Susan Spice; and Jungwon Yeo.

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Community Emergency Managers: Maximize Impact with B.C.’s New Indigenous Engagement Funding

CCEM Strategies

s new Emergency and Disaster Management Act (EDMA) was passed, replacing the previous Emergency Program Act. With this new legislation comes substantial new requirements for community emergency managers – many relating to Indigenous engagement. New Legislation, New Requirements, New Funding On November 8, 2023, B.C.’s

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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. With that in mind, I submit to you the following areas of action: First and foremost, we need better data on the vast mosaic of disaster spending.

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Common Misconceptions about Disaster

Emergency Planning

Myth 10: After disaster people will not make rational decisions and will therefore inevitably tend to do the wrong thing unless authority guides them. Reality: The problem of disasters is largely a social one. In addition, technology is a potential source of vulnerability as well as a means of reducing it. Men are better.