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Book Review: Justice, Equity, and Emergency Management

Recovery Diva

Review of Justice, Equity, and Emergency Management, e dited by Allessandra Jerolleman and William L. Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management. Review by Donald Watson, co-author with Michele Adams of Design for Flooding: Resilience to Climate Change (Wiley 2011). Emerald Publishing Ltd.

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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. is a Senior Disaster Management Specialist currently working for the Pacific Disaster Center (PDC) Global of the Research Center of the University of Hawaii (RCUH). December 2022.

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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Emergency Planning

From memory he recited to me a catalogue of omissions, oversights and failures in managing the risks. The real problem is that the British emergency planning, management and response system is fragmented and incomplete. They are managed by the country's local resilience forums. It lacks a national emergency operations centre.

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Getting Started with Enterprise Risk Management

MHA Consulting

In today’s post, we’ll take a look at how organizations can get started using Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) to reduce their exposure and improve their resilience. Many that do incorporate risk management in their operations do so in a half-hearted way. They follow what I call the “Good luck, people” school of risk management.

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A Proposed Strategy to Advocate for Improved Civil Protection in the United Kingdom

Emergency Planning

The lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic, alas largely negative, show that a good civilian system designed to protect the public against major hazards and threats can save thousands of lives and billions in losses and wasted expenditure. It is common to find lags and inertia in civil protection. that are pertinent to the field. The regional tier.

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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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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. disaster management specialist, PDC Global. link] April 2020. Reviewer: Irmak Renda-Tanali, D.Sc.,