2011 All-Hazards Authorization 
Recovery Diva
APRIL 12, 2023
This way the reader is given a roadmap to pick and choose from, if they wish so, the case studies written by various authors whose chapters span a wide variety of hazards as well as geographical and sociological settings all of which delve into a chosen aspect of disaster recovery towards building resiliency.
Emergency Planning
MAY 6, 2024
The lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic, alas largely negative, show that a good civilian system designed to protect the public against major hazards and threats can save thousands of lives and billions in losses and wasted expenditure. For years, local authorities have been starved of funds and resources. that are pertinent to the field.
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Recovery Diva
NOVEMBER 22, 2021
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).
Recovery Diva
MAY 12, 2022
Review by Donald Watson, co-author with Michele Adams of Design for Flooding: Resilience to Climate Change (Wiley 2011). More than twenty authors are represented in this timely book, edited by Alessandra Jerolleman and William L. He has since served in over thirty nations worldwide as consultant for United Nations, U.S.
Emergency Planning
OCTOBER 23, 2020
Since 2008, pandemics have been top of the list of 96 threats and hazards in the UK National Risk Register of Civil Emergencies in all editions. Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014. I have taught it every year since then. There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016.
Emergency Planning
AUGUST 22, 2019
In 2011, when I was approached by Elsevier about establishing the IJDRR, the first question was, "Is there a need for a new journal in this field?" All over the world, academics are under great pressure to teach more, do more research, advise students more, apply for more grants, cope with more bureaucracy and participate in more initiatives.
National Center for Disaster Prepardness
JANUARY 19, 2022
Preparedness funding has ebbed and flowed over the years, peaking a few years after 9/11 and gradually decreasing with health security grant programs decreasing by a third to as much as half from their peaks, with similar reductions across all-hazards emergency management grant programs.
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