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Cities, Cultural Heritage and the Culture of Responding to Floods

Emergency Planning

Powerful floods struck Puerto Lumbreras again in 2012. In 2021 a colleague who studies natural hazards wrote to me that "our institute is all but destroyed and colleagues have lost their homes". Each new disaster reveals the shortcomings of hazard mitigation and disaster preparedness. Why has this not solved the problem?

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Is it Possible to Keep Up with the Literature?

Emergency Planning

I am the founding editor of the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (IJDRR), which began publishing in August 2012 with just four papers. Prior to submitting a work for publication, one must make sure that one has read all the truly pertinent literature.

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State Legislative Update: 2024 Legislation Impacting the Security Industry

Security Industry Association

The author has indicated she will reintroduce the measure for the 2025-2026 session. That state “consensus” model that has emerged features enforcement by state attorney generals (no private right of action) and all similar state laws include essential security-use exemptions. states with such measures to 20. 2) A medical alert. (3)

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Using Budget Principles to Prepare for Future Pandemics and Other Disasters

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

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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Growth in Codes and Standards is Essential to Safety within Cannabis Oil Extraction Facilities

National Fire Protection Association

In 2012, Colorado and Washington became the first two states to legalize recreational use of cannabis. Facilities of all shapes and sizes began popping up in states where cannabis was legalized to be manufactured. Both the cannabis plant and the industry itself have been growing quite a bit over the past decade.