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Book Review: Justice, Equity, and Emergency Management

Recovery Diva

3 …requires full harnessing of the communities transformative and adaptive capacity in order to reduce risks for the future…working to eliminate existing patterns of unequal distribution of risk. #4 Chapter 3, “Agricultural and Fishery Disasters: Public Policy Challenges and Just Recovery in a Critical Infrastructure Sector ” by Jerry V.

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The 1980 Southern Italian Earthquake After Forty Years

Emergency Planning

Laviano, Province of Avellino, 1984 Monday 23rd November 2020 at 19:34 and 52.8 It is salutary to reflect that many of those scholars who have studied this disaster are too young to have experienced it. The year 1980 was something of a watershed in the field of disaster risk reduction (or disaster management as it was then known).

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The Everbridge Contribution to Research on Societal Resilience

everbridge

What capacity to react and respond to extreme events do societies have? This issue is one of three pillars of the European Union research and innovation program Horizon 2020, with the name of “Secure Societies”, in which we are taking part.

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AI for Early Warning Systems and Anticipatory Action

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

Although the Sendai Framework emphasizes the need to reduce fatalities and loss of life, federal disaster response in the U.S. This framework places the burden of decision-making and responsibility on a single individual or organization, typically an emergency or disaster manager, who must determine when and how to act.

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Using Budget Principles to Prepare for Future Pandemics and Other Disasters

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

The prior iteration also included critical focuses like creating a culture of preparedness and simplifying bureaucracy as important nods to basic challenges in disaster management. In its latest iteration it focuses on issues of climate change and equity among others.