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Book Review: Case Studies in Disaster Recovery

Recovery Diva

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann, Elsevier, Oxford, UK and Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. However, it is also constrained by the community’s resource availability, adaptability, and existing vulnerability among other things. Volume Editor: Jane Kushma, Ph.D. December 2022. Paperback ISBN: 9780128095744 eBook ISBN: 9780128095362.

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As Populations Grow and New Hazards Emerge, Understanding Global Trends and Research Can Help Us Chart the Course

National Fire Protection Association

The fire underscores global concerns about fire and life safety, particularly among developing nations and areas where housing pressures create additional risks for the poorest and most vulnerable populations. The following blog was originally published October 8, 2021. Fire and life safety is one of those pressures.

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Reflections on the Turkish-Syrian Earthquakes of 6th February 2023: Building Collapse and its Consequences

Emergency Planning

Source: Wikimedia Commons An interesting map was published by the US Geological Survey shortly after the Turkish-Syrian earthquakes. [1] Most of them are highly vulnerable to seismic forces. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 15: 931-945. Natural Hazards 109: 161-200. the 'violent' level. [2] Ecemis, S.Z.

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The 2019 Global Assessment Report (GAR)

Emergency Planning

These may be published separately in an academic journal. Globally, about a thousand times as much is spent on hydrocarbon exploration and extraction than on the mitigation of the climate change that results from burning fossil fuels (Mechler et al. At Risk: Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability and Disasters (2nd edition).

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Top 10 Resources to Help You Become a BCM Ninja 

MHA Consulting

Then as now, the government published resources to help organizations protect themselves. A great place to get an overview of the whole BC field, from Program Administration to Exercises to Risk Management and Mitigation. Back then, finding information on how to do anything in BC and IT disaster recovery (IT/DR) was impossible.

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Using Budget Principles to Prepare for Future Pandemics and Other Disasters

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

Expansion of pre-disaster mitigation funding such as through the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program, and new funding for infrastructure resilience embedded in the bi-partisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act are also steps in the right direction. And that is just the federal programs.

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Corporate Security Predictions and Trends 2021

Swan Island Network

We anticipate most companies will spend more resources monitoring emerging events in order to prevent or mitigate damages—examining secondary and tertiary areas of impact due to the rising complexity they are encountering. This article was first published on the Disaster Recovery Journal website. The roller coaster is going faster.