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International SOS

Disaster Zone Podcast

Eric Holdeman is a professional emergency manager who is passionate about providing information that can help families, businesses & governments become better prepared for disasters of all types. Prior to his service at FEMA, he served as the Director of Preparedness Policy for the White House Homeland Security Council.

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Double trouble: When climate change and cyber crime collide

everbridge

Businesses must ensure that they have the infrastructure, plans, and operational capacity to manage polycrisis events. This is hazardous thinking. The Department of Energy also just announced $23 million to secure energy systems against climate, cyber, and physical threats. But government action alone is not enough.

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The 1980 Southern Italian Earthquake After Forty Years

Emergency Planning

Civil protection, in the form of locally-based disaster response capacity, would begin to emerge in the following decade, which would end with the inauguration of the United Nations Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction. For the local economy, all was not lost, or not quite all. The reconstruction was a long-drawn out process.

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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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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Emergency Planning

d) Intentional disasters, comprising all forms of terrorism and sabotage. (e) Warming has already begun to have a substantial effect on the magnitude and frequency of meteorological hazards. For example, counter-terrorism policy and policy against natural hazards can be quite different. Disasters 42(S2): S265-S286. Girgin and A.

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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. I look code up on the internet all the time. All patterns and anti-patterns have valid exceptions. What are design patterns? I don’t do riddles.”

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Amazon Solar Shutdown Provides Opportunity for Praise and Reflection on Safe Solar Installations

National Fire Protection Association

According to recent reports from CNBC and other major news outlets, Amazon temporarily shut down all solar power generation at their North American facilities last year as they worked to investigate potential fire safety issues with these systems. In the United States alone, solar power capacity has grown from approximately 0.34