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

Emergency Planning

Increasing dependency on critical infrastructure makes the country ever more vulnerable to proliferating technological failure, whether it is caused by cyber attack, sabotage or natural forces. For years, local authorities have been starved of funds and resources. The local level. 1] Domoto, A., Ohara and H.

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Using Budget Principles to Prepare for Future Pandemics and Other Disasters

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

At the same time, we see widening inequalities in who has access to recovery resources, and disparities in vulnerability that are too often predictable by socioeconomic status, race and ethnicity. In an era of threats and vulnerabilities that are increasing in complexity we need to simplify the process. 1] [link]. [2]

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SIA New Member Profile: Riley

Security Industry Association

JA : Riley is a veteran-owned small business that Phil Dwyer and I co-founded in 2011. The services or systems that reduce impact or vulnerability the most, at the same price point, offer more inherent value. SIA spoke with Jake Allen, president and CEO of Riley, about the company, the security industry and working with SIA.