2012 All-Hazards Hazard 
Emergency Planning
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
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?
Emergency Planning
APRIL 24, 2022
A principle of cascading disasters is that the world is ever more closely linked by networks on which we all depend for communications, commerce, enlightenment and entertainment. It is obvious that military instability is likely to complicate and retard the process of getting natural hazard impacts under control. DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2013.06.107
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BCP Builder
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
The resulting Risk Register will be comprehensive and will cover almost all the risks and could be used both for Business Continuity and Risk Management. of ISO 22301:2012) these can be sourced (in part) from the risk register and Enterprise Risk Management and evaluated with a Business Continuity Management lens.
Emergency Planning
AUGUST 22, 2019
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.
Security Industry Association
OCTOBER 11, 2024
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. Data Privacy Five states enacted comprehensive data privacy legislation in 2024, bringing the number of U.S. states with such measures to 20.
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.
National Fire Protection Association
DECEMBER 14, 2022
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.
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