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Book Review: Case Studies in Disaster Recovery

Recovery Diva

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.

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Post Earthquake: Managing the Situation in Christchurch NZ

Disaster Zone Podcast

In this Disaster Zone Podcast we will be talking about the significant challenges New Zealand and Christchurch faced in the aftermath of their 2010-2011 Earthquakes. The podcast guest is Brent Winder is a native New Zealander. You can contact him at Brenden.Winder@ccc.govt.nz The podcast guest is Brent Winder is a native New Zealander.

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Book Review: Justice, Equity, and Emergency Management

Recovery Diva

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.

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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).

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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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Is it Possible to Keep Up with the Literature?

Emergency Planning

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?" I am amazed at how many authors submit work and do not even seem to have spent those vital two minutes putting the basic key words into Google Scholar.

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SIA New Member Profile: AxxonSoft US Inc.

Security Industry Association

AA : AxxonSoft has been participating in ISC events since 2011, and we’re surely planning to continue doing that. The views and opinions expressed in guest posts and/or profiles are those of the authors or sources and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Security Industry Association.