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Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

Emergency Planning

In his book about the earthquake, the eminent Harvard medical doctor Paul Farmer [ii] noted that only 3.8% In 1978 the architect Ian Davis published a small book entitled Shelter After Disaster , [iv] which included a number of well-chosen exposés of post-disaster housing as architectural fantasy rather than useful dwelling place.

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Beware of the self-wiggling mouse – Water industry & Cyber

Plan B Consulting

Water industry 1995 The interview for my first job when coming out of the army in 1995, was for the role of Emergency Planning Manager for a water company in the UK. Hacking not considered an issue These were the infancy days of the internet, and external hacking of the system was not really considered an issue.

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Beware of the self-wiggling mouse – Water industry & Cyber

Plan B Consulting

The interview for my first job when coming out of the army in 1995, was for the role of Emergency Planning Manager for a water company in the UK. These were the infancy days of the internet, and external hacking of the system was not really considered an issue. Water industry 1995. Hacking not considered an issue.