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Serious Trouble With the National Flood Ins. Program

Recovery Diva

“The upshot is that FEMA flood hazard maps that determine coverage today rely on outdated information so inaccurate that more than 40 percent of NFIP claims made from 2017 to 2019 were for properties outside official flood hazard zones or in areas the agency had not mapped at all.”

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Planning for Disaster Debris Removal

Disaster Zone Podcast

Debris can come in all shapes and sizes to include cars, houses and hazardous materials. Rob has led major US disaster debris operations across the US including, most recently, Corps of Engineer missions for the 2017 CA wildfires; Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Ian; 2022 Kentucky floods.

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The 2019 Global Assessment Report (GAR)

Emergency Planning

I have argued elsewhere (Alexander 2017) that the number of times the word 'should' is used in an official document is an inverse indicator of its utility. Unofficial voices have suggested that the 'cure to damage ratio' for natural hazards is 1:43. Disaster Planning and Emergency Management, 18 July 2017. The 'should ratio'.

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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Emergency Planning

In some instances, notably the Manchester Arena bombing and the Grenfell Tower fire (both in 2017), the shortcomings have been nothing less than scandalous (Kerslake 2018, Moore-Bick 2019). The Kerslake Report: An Independent Review into the Preparedness For, and Emergency Response to, the Manchester Arena Attack on 22nd May 2017.

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Reflections on the Turkish-Syrian Earthquakes of 6th February 2023: Building Collapse and its Consequences

Emergency Planning

Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 15: 931-945. Natural Hazards 109: 161-200. Select Bibliography of Sources on Turkish R/C Construction Practices Cogurcu, M.T. Construction and design defects in the residential buildings and observed earthquake damage types in Turkey. Ecemis, S.Z. Korkmaz, M.H. Arslan and H.H. Korkmaz 2021.

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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Emergency Planning

Since 2008, pandemics have been top of the list of 96 threats and hazards in the UK National Risk Register of Civil Emergencies in all editions. The exercises revealed, for example, that special attention needed to be given to protecting the residents of care homes (PHE 2017, pp. I have taught it every year since then. Murphy, S.,

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Hot Work: More than Welding, Cutting, and Burning

National Fire Protection Association

Hot work continues to be one of the most significant industrial hazards facing the world. Alarming data Between 2017 and 2021, fire departments in the United States responded to an estimated average of 3,396 structure fires involving hot work each year, according to the latest data from NFPA. What is hot work?