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Resilience is an illusion

Emergency Planning

Secondly, and more importantly, vulnerability, risk, impact and their controlling factors are all trending. Hence, public discourse and concerns could conceivably change overnight (as they did in the USA after "Nine-Eleven" in 2001). I recommend going back to vulnerability and endeavouring to identify, understand and reduce it.

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Book Review: Constructing Risk

Recovery Diva

Reviewed by Donald Watson, editor of the website theOARSlist.com , Organizations Addressing Resilience and Sustainability, editor of Time-Saver Standards for Urban Design (McGraw-Hill 2001), and co-author with Michele Adams of Design for Flooding: Resilience to Climate Change (Wiley 2011). He has served as consultant for United Nations, U.S.

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

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

We were also stunned by the sense of extraordinary vulnerability to unknown forces that had also hit the Pentagon and had likely targeted the nation’s Capital. And do something to make our nation and the world less vulnerable. We felt naked and unprepared in the face of terrorism at a scale never before seen in the U.S.

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SIA New Member Profile: Secure Direction Consulting

Security Industry Association

performing security vulnerability analysis for various environments), we also provide forensic security consulting and workplace violence prevention education/programs. MD : It goes without saying the last big boom to propel our industry forward was Sept 11, 2001. And what makes your offerings or your company unique?

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SIA New Member Profile: Concentric Security

Security Industry Association

11, 2001, Concentric Security was born to expand on the need to keep people and property safe. Site characteristics Vulnerability assessments Vector analysis Blast analysis Threat verification Stakeholder input. After the events of Sept. This includes: Assessment. Engineering.

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Top 10 Resources to Help You Become a BCM Ninja 

MHA Consulting

Much of this change was propelled by the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.) However, there is one aspect of doing BCM that is much better and easier than it was when I was getting started 25 years ago. Back then, finding information on how to do anything in BC and IT disaster recovery (IT/DR) was impossible.

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Coronavirus and China’s Decision-Making in a Crisis

Marketpoint Recall

Despite the unfortunate timing and severity of the coronavirus, the CCP leadership’s crisis response has not drastically deviated from a historic model decision making model that leaves the Party vulnerable to group-think and indecision from internal and external squabbles. One such article in the People’ Daily claimed that the U.S.

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