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OUR CHALLENGE

Emergency Planning

By 2020 it had forgotten or ignored most of the lessons, sold off or destroyed the equipment and drugs, and turned its attention firmly to lesser contingencies, despite the fact that pandemics consistently topped the list in the national risk register. Natural hazard impacts are becoming fiercer, more extensive and more frequent.

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Natural Hazards Center, University of Colorado, Boulder

Disaster Zone Podcast

All forms of science can be beneficial to people working in the emergency management and disaster related fields of endeavor. Lori Peek, a professor in the Department of Sociology and director of the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado Boulder is the guest for this podcast.

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Election Security

Disaster Zone Podcast

Election security has been in the news since 2020. You will find that he is knowledgeable of the topic area and articulate in explaining all the tools used to protect the integrity of the elections system, both from a physical security and from a cybersecurity perspective. Election security has been in the news since 2020.

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Hawaii Emergency Management

Disaster Zone Podcast

The State of Hawaii has a unique geographical location among all states—an island state! We discuss the hazards the state faces and also their jurisdictional arrangement with a total of four counties. Supply chain dependencies and being reliant on shipping for all your goods is another dynamic they have to deal with.

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New Book Review

Recovery Diva

link] April 2020. This textbook provides a multitude of case studies each written by academics who are actively teaching and/or have developed curriculum in the fields of crisis, disaster, and/or emergency management with a specific focus on vulnerable populations that are the weakest links in the hazard-risk chain.

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Book Review: Justice, Equity, and Emergency Management

Recovery Diva

The principles establish a high and, for all the authors of this volume, a necessary standard for the aspirations of emergency managers and the communities they serve, to work toward disaster recovery processes and practices whereby: #1 ….all The Chapter 1 Introduction by Jerolleman and Waugh sets forth four principles of “Just Recovery.”

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Double trouble: When climate change and cyber crime collide

everbridge

Recently, during the severe wildfires in California between 2018 and 2020, phishing attacks and scams pretending to be wildfire relief efforts were widespread. This is hazardous thinking. Cybercriminals impersonated federal and local government agencies and relief organizations. Think beyond single scenario planning.

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