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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. The book is part of Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change. The book is organized according to 11 chapters, each as an attempt to explain further the above issues as well as additional arguments.

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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. A special treat in the book, is found in Chapter 8, “The Underside of Epiphany: Wandering Wonderings.”

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Clarity from Chaos: the Global Regulatory Challenge

Fusion Risk Management

If you ask most resilience students or apprenticeship trainees what their ultimate career goal position might be, heading up the global resilience team for financial services market leaders would likely be high up there. However, once you have reached those lofty echelons, you have a massive challenge on your hands.

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18/06/2014 Dealing with mass fatalities

Plan B Consulting

Recently I went to an excellent seminar in Dundee organised by the Tayside Local Resilience Partnership titled “Managing responders needs during a mass fatalities incident”. Glasgow City Council, for example, had to find suitable staff for a number of days to man the book of condolence.

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18/06/2014 Dealing with mass fatalities

Plan B Consulting

Recently I went to an excellent seminar in Dundee organised by the Tayside Local Resilience Partnership titled “Managing responders needs during a mass fatalities incident”. Glasgow City Council, for example, had to find suitable staff for a number of days to man the book of condolence.