article thumbnail

Using Budget Principles to Prepare for Future Pandemics and Other Disasters

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

Testimony to the House of Representatives Committee on Rules’ Subcommittee on Legislative and Budget Process for the Hearing: Using Budget Principles to Prepare for Future Pandemics and Other Disasters. Testimony Submitted January 16, 2022. By: Jeff Schlegelmilch, MPH, MBA. For all other bills (i.e.

article thumbnail

Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of September 8; Updates from CloudFlare, Cohesity, IBM & More

Solutions Review

2 2280 NVMe and external USB storage, and are available in 512GB, 1TB, and 2TB capacities. All to meet the demand for what its editors do best: bring industry experts together to publish the web’s leading insights for enterprise technology practitioners. Read on for more.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Book Review: Justice, Equity, and Emergency Management

Recovery Diva

Emerald Publishing Ltd. 3 …requires full harnessing of the communities transformative and adaptive capacity in order to reduce risks for the future…working to eliminate existing patterns of unequal distribution of risk. #4 Review of Justice, Equity, and Emergency Management, e dited by Allessandra Jerolleman and William L.

article thumbnail

The Beginnings of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP)

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

In 2003, the National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP), Columbia University, was founded to provide an academically based, interdisciplinary center focused on the capacity to prevent, respond to, and recover from disasters. New York, the United States, and, indeed, the world was totally unprepared.

article thumbnail

Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

Pandemics are included because many of the effects of a pandemic are likely to be socio-economic in nature. There is also a link between pandemics and the 'intentional disaster' of bioterrorism (Trufanov et al. University College London Press, London, and Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 632 pp. Natural Disasters.

article thumbnail

Storage and Data Protection News for the Month of February; Updates from Arcserve, Druva, HYCU & More

Solutions Review

Despite economic and political uncertainty, and emerging from the challenges of a global pandemic, people everywhere showed they were willing to adapt and change for the future. New Research on Digital Resilience Unveils Massive Opportunity for Organizations Recent times proved the world is more resilient than we ever thought before.

Backup 97
article thumbnail

Storage and Data Protection News for the Month of February; Updates from Arcserve, Druva, HYCU & More

Solutions Review

Despite economic and political uncertainty, and emerging from the challenges of a global pandemic, people everywhere showed they were willing to adapt and change for the future. New Research on Digital Resilience Unveils Massive Opportunity for Organizations Recent times proved the world is more resilient than we ever thought before.

Backup 69