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FEMA is Not Prepared for the Next H. Katrina

Recovery Diva

“Cuts, chaos, and climate change are converging to leave Americans more vulnerable to disaster than they were in 2005” From Yale Climate Connections: FEMA is unprepared for the next Hurricane Katrina, disaster experts warn.

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OUR CHALLENGE

Emergency Planning

Since 2005 when the World Health Organisation started to advocate serious viral disease planning the United Kingdom ran or participated in nine major simulation exercises on pandemics, some of them pan-European initiatives. I taught pandemic preparedness on the basis of his example for the next 12 years. Then it came to pass.

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What is COBIT? COBIT Explained

BMC

Development of the AS 8015: Australian Standard for Corporate Governance of Information and Communication Technology and the ISO/IEC 38500 in January 2005 and January 2007 respectively upped the degree of awareness of the need for reliable information and communication technology (ICT) governance components.

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Examining the Changes at FEMA with Craig Fugate

Disaster Zone Podcast

Prior to his tenure at FEMA, Fugate was widely praised for his management, under Governor Jeb Bush, of the devastating effects of the 2004 and 2005 Florida hurricane seasons (Charley, Frances, Ivan, Jeanne, Dennis, Katrina, and Wilma).

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Best survival TV shows

The Prepared

In no particular order: Les Stroud in Survivorman Survivorman (2005, 7 seasons). Think about what you would do in similar situations, pay attention to how people solve problems or what kinds of mental traps they fall into, and so on. Bear Grylls may know his stuff, but his show is staged.

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Scott Davis To Testify to Joint Session of PA Legislature on PA Breach Notification Law

Scott R. Davis

474, No 94) passed on December 22, 2005 and became law on June 19, 2006. Currently, Pennsylvania has the third oldest breach notification law on record, only Minnesota and Wisconsin are older. The Breach of Personal Information Notification Act (P.L.

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Implementing the HFA at a local level in Europe: Towards the Post-2015 Framework 

Crisis Response Journal

Patrícia Pires provides an overview local level resilience in Europe, and how priorities set under the Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015 should be continued and evolve in the future. By Patrícia Pires