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Unlocking Climate Change Resilience Through Critical Event Management and Public Warning

everbridge

In the period 2000 to 2019, there were 7,348 major recorded disaster events claiming 1.23 The report “The Human Cost of Disasters 2000-2019” also records major increases in other categories including drought, wildfires , and extreme temperature events. So, how can public and private sectors cultivate climate change resilience?

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EP21:Reaching the Next Generation of Planners | Burley & Navarro

The Failover Plan Podcast

Joel has been working in business continuity management since the early 2000. He's an experienced business continuity executive with proven success in managing global resiliency programs. He is certified with DRII as a CBCP and with BCI as an MBCI.

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Building Flood Resilience: A Grand Challenge for U.S. Water Policy

The Rand Blog

Since 2000, flooding events occur almost daily and the cost of inland flooding alone in 2023 was nearly $200 billion. Flooding has become the most expensive and frequent disaster in the United States. Managing flood risk requires transformations in land use, regulation, insurance, and financing.

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The 2019 Global Assessment Report (GAR)

Emergency Planning

The United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction was born out of the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, 1990-2000. Recommendations for a Post-2015 Disaster Risk Reduction Framework to Strengthen the Resilience of Communities to All Hazards. DRR is thus now truly mainstreamed at the global level.

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7 Edge Computing Trends to Watch in 2022

Pure Storage

Whether as part of the core design of an edge system or a function of resiliency, disconnected edge just might be the next big thing. Then, when the connection resumes, the system can sync and transfer data without disruption to the business. This disconnected mode opens up possibilities for much more. Edge computing will take off in retail.

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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). Recommendations proposed by the authors include community emergency and resilience centers, library internet access available to all community members, public transportation systems, and internet as a public utility (p.

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A developer’s guide to programatically overcome fear of failure by Mandeep Kaur

PagerDuty

Lewis & Haviland-Jones, 2000 ), “When a person feels that he or she is becoming his or her undesired or feared self.” Part of embracing failure stems from finding ways to be more resilient to it. So, how do we build resiliency? ” ( H. Lewis, 1971 ). “A failure to live up to roles or goals.”

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