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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). 3 …requires full harnessing of the communities transformative and adaptive capacity in order to reduce risks for the future…working to eliminate existing patterns of unequal distribution of risk. #4

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Business, Interrupted: Peeling Back the Layers of Supply Chain Resilience

Castellan

Take, for example, industry response after the devastating earthquake and tsunami affected Japan in 2011. Can it kill business instantly or can you keep functioning at reduced capacity? How will you accept, mitigate, remediate, or remove these risks? Think of it as the veins pumping a lifeline through your organization.

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Using Budget Principles to Prepare for Future Pandemics and Other Disasters

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

Expansion of pre-disaster mitigation funding such as through the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program, and new funding for infrastructure resilience embedded in the bi-partisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act are also steps in the right direction. The Budget Control Act of 2011 (BCA; P.L. 1] [link]. [2]

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Inflation Considerations for Risk Managers and Insurance Buyers

Risk Management Monitor

The conflict in Ukraine was already an inflection point for the insurance markets, with hardening rates and capacity changes anticipated in some specific classes as a result. Rather, prepare yourself with education and resources and then, after identifying risks unique to your business, proactively seek to mitigate them.