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More on the Covid-19 Academic Gold Rush

Emergency Planning

In this context, I salute the thoughtful work of Christopher Gomez, Dierdre Hart and JC Gaillard (Gomez and Hart 2013, Gaillard and Gomez 2015) on the phenomenon of the "disaster gold rush". If we are asked to do more, it must be at the expense of some other activity. This also exists outside the academic field. What use is it then?

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Community Resilience or Community Dystopia in Disaster Risk Reduction?

Emergency Planning

In disaster risk reduction circles, there is an almost desperate reliance on 'community' and a strong growth in studies and plans to "involve the community" in facing up to risks and impacts (Berkes and Ross 2013). In Florence, by contrast, there is a living, active concept of fiorentinesimo. I need not repeat them here. Statler and R.

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Counting Costs: The Impact of a Government Shutdown on the Security Industry

Security Industry Association

Department of Defense and four other major departments, the looming shutdown could affect all federal agencies dependent on appropriations, making it more similar to the October 2013 shutdown that lasted 16 days. What is a government shutdown?

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California Bills Would Impact Artificial Intelligence, Shape Security

Security Industry Association

The latest committee amendments dramatically scale back the applicability of the measure by limiting it to employment related decisions, exempting state and local agencies and limiting enforcement authority to the California Civil Rights Department.

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27/03/2015 A Threat From Within

Plan B Consulting

The news very quickly turned from why the crash occurred, to why the co-pilot deliberately crashed the plane, with the media and German authorities busy searching through his past and questioning anyone who knew him, to find out why. They have procedures to ensure that there is never one member of the crew left alone in the cockpit.

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27/03/2015 A Threat From Within

Plan B Consulting

The news very quickly turned from why the crash occurred, to why the co-pilot deliberately crashed the plane, with the media and German authorities busy searching through his past and questioning anyone who knew him, to find out why. They have procedures to ensure that there is never one member of the crew left alone in the cockpit.

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‘Adaptive Business Continuity: A New Approach’

Plan B Consulting

There is also a requisite for additional analyses of a department’s activities, which are not in the ‘traditional’ requirements of developing a BIA. For me, the examples demonstrated that Adaptive BC is not very different to the BCI Good Practice Guidelines 2013, which many of us work to. Not to improve recoverability’.