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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.

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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. Emerald Publishing Ltd. Chapter 3, “Agricultural and Fishery Disasters: Public Policy Challenges and Just Recovery in a Critical Infrastructure Sector ” by Jerry V.

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Executive Action Alone Won’t Save Us from Climate Change

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

Alternatively, Biden could use the Stafford Act in much the same way Trump did for the COVID-19 pandemic. — Lucia Bragg is Policy Manager at the National Center for Disaster Management at the Columbia Climate School. Not to mention the hundreds of executive orders generally doled out per president.