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Seeing and Hearing: Underrated Skills?

Emergency Planning

People came from far and wide to attach the Renaissance equivalent of ‘Post-It’ notes to the pedestal to express what they thought of the work (Forcellino 2009, p. References Forcellino, Antonio 2009. Despite the immense outpouring of creativity in Florence in that period, people were not satiated with images. The Story of Art.

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The Lives of Veterans Experiencing Homelessness

The Rand Blog

The United States pledged in 2009 to end veteran homelessness. The numbers have fallen by nearly half since then, but there are still more than 37,000 veterans living in their cars, in temporary shelters, or in makeshift camps. Researchers followed 26 of them for one year to see how they live and what keeps them on the streets.

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Why Crisis Management Planning Should Be On Your To-Do List

Bernstein Crisis Management

Product Recalls: Toyota and Johnson & Johnson Toyota’s response to their acceleration issues in 2009-2011 involved recalling millions of vehicles, cooperating with investigations, and improving quality control processes. Their prompt and transparent response helped preserve customer trust and confidence.

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Maui Wildfire Disaster Recovery

Disaster Zone Podcast

Since its release in 2009, Sean's book The Red Guide to Recovery - Resource Handbook for Disaster Survivors has been adopted by emergency management agencies, fire departments, Native tribes, relief organizations, and fortune 500 companies across the U.S.

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Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Emergency Planning

With regard to the last of these points, it is worth considering the criticisms of the concept of social capital, which is often used in conjunction with community-based DRR (Haynes 2009, Inaba 2013). I need not repeat them here. The manifestation of community may simply be an expression of the will of the powerful. Disaster subcultures.

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

Emergency Planning

Why RC buildings failed in the 2011 Van, Turkey, earthquakes: construction versus design practices. Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities 31(3): Korkmaz, K.A. Earthquake disaster risk assessment and evaluation for Turkey. Environmental Geology 57: 307-320. Ozmen, H.B.

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Terrorism Research: How RAND Defined and Built a New Field of Knowledge

The Rand Blog

Maintained until 2009, it chronicles more than 40,000 terrorist attacks since 1968. In the early 1970s, amid a worldwide rash of bombings, hijackings, and hostage-takings, RAND researchers began creating the first international database of terrorist incidents.

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