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Detecting and Confronting Procurement Fraud

Risk Management Monitor

This figure dwarfs other areas such as corporate tax avoidance, where HMRC estimates that $94 billion (£70 billion) was avoided between 2011 and 2015. Additionally, fraud often occurs when suppliers become close with an individual with authority inside an organization that can provide undetected access. What Can Be Done?

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A Proposed Strategy to Advocate for Improved Civil Protection in the United Kingdom

Emergency Planning

For years, local authorities have been starved of funds and resources. An example is the excoriating report produced by three eminent Japanese women after the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear release, which highlights the deficiencies of a response system in which decision making is in the hands of elderly males. [1] Ohara and H.

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Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Emergency Planning

Rioting and looting occurred in London in 2011 and in Concepcion, Chile, after the 2010 earthquake and tsunami. In Florence, by contrast, there is a living, active concept of fiorentinesimo. It is likely to be polycentric (hoping that I am not taking too metropolitan view of the phenomenon).

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Emergency Communication

BCP Builder

Prominent examples include the Deepwater Horizon Oil spill in 2010, the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster in 2011 or the sinking of the “Costa Concordia” cruise ship in 2012. About the Author Matthes Derdack is Co-founder and CEO of DERDACK and SIGNL4. While operational alerting tools like SIGNL4® ( www.signl4.com

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Emergency Communication

BCP Builder

Prominent examples include the Deepwater Horizon Oil spill in 2010, the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster in 2011 or the sinking of the “Costa Concordia” cruise ship in 2012. About the Author. Unfortunately, rare “black swan” events are the worst and often result in disaster.

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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Emergency Planning

Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014. Local and regional authorities have been emasculated, and the result of this has been manifest in their inability to respond adequately to local needs. There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. The plans were not connected to anything.

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GEJET - Great Eastern Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (and Nuclear Release) - Tenth Anniversary

Emergency Planning

The tsunami museum at Rikusentakata, seen from atop the coastal tsunami barrier across the land that was devastated by the waves in March 2011 Thursday 11 th March 2021 was the tenth anniversary of the Japanese triple disaster: earthquake, tsunami and radiation release. A tsunami is usually nothing like the breakers that surfers ride.