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New Book Review

Recovery Diva

Editors : Claire Connolly Knox and Brittany “Brie” Haupt Title : Cultural Competency for Emergency and Crisis Management: Concepts, Theories and Case Studies. link] April 2020. disaster management specialist, PDC Global. Publisher : Routledge – Taylor & Francis Group, New York and London. Carter; Frannie Edwards; N.

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Book Review: Justice, Equity, and Emergency Management

Recovery Diva

Chapter 2, “Mutual Aid: Grassroots Model for Justice and Equity in Emergency Management” by Miriam Belblidia and Chenier Kliebert, describes successful lessons of a Mutual Aid Response Network (MARN) involving over 5,000 participants in a grassroots response to COVOID-19 pandemic and a record-breaking Gulf Coast hurricane season 2020.

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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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AI for Early Warning Systems and Anticipatory Action

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

Emerging advancements in weather and hazard forecasting enabled by machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) present promising new solutions for adapting to increasingly frequent and severe weather events. United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, 2017). United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, 2017).

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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.