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Book Review: Disaster and Emergency Management Methods

Recovery Diva

Publisher: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, New York and London. Key words: environmental governance, sustainability, resilience, climate risk, natural hazard, disaster risk reduction, building regulation. All too often such literature and texts lack gender diversity and key perspectives from women leaders. for paperback.,

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Book Review: Case Studies in Disaster Recovery

Recovery Diva

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann, Elsevier, Oxford, UK and Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Each chapter is written by (a) a different author(s). The discussions are based on many years of practical experience and/or research conducted by the authors. Volume Editor: Jane Kushma, Ph.D. December 2022. Pages: 272.

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New Book Review

Recovery Diva

Publisher : Routledge – Taylor & Francis Group, New York and London. The book has sixteen (16) chapters of which the first four were written by the editors, and the remaining twelve (12) each written by different authors. Book Review: Cultural Competency for Emergency and Crisis Management. link] April 2020.

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Is it Possible to Keep Up with the Literature?

Emergency Planning

I am the founding editor of the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (IJDRR), which began publishing in August 2012 with just four papers. Two years ago, the journal published its first issue to contain 100 papers. This makes it all the more likely that earlier work will unknowingly be repeated.

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Book Review: Justice, Equity, and Emergency Management

Recovery Diva

Emerald Publishing Ltd. Review by Donald Watson, co-author with Michele Adams of Design for Flooding: Resilience to Climate Change (Wiley 2011). More than twenty authors are represented in this timely book, edited by Alessandra Jerolleman and William L. Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management.

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Anti-Patterns vs. Patterns: What Is the Difference?

BMC

We all know what patterns generally are in common language, but to understand their importance in software engineering it’s important to first discuss algorithms. Indeed, on this author’s desk sits a copy of what is considered by many to be one of the most seminal works on the subject, Fundamental Algorithms by Donald Knuth.

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Growth in Codes and Standards is Essential to Safety within Cannabis Oil Extraction Facilities

National Fire Protection Association

Facilities of all shapes and sizes began popping up in states where cannabis was legalized to be manufactured. RELATED • Listen to an NFPA podcast about regulating the cannabis industry • Read, “The New Face of Pot,” published in the July/August 2018 NFPA Journal What does the NEC say?