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Book Review: Case Studies in Disaster Recovery

Recovery Diva

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann, Elsevier, Oxford, UK and Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Review of Case Studies in Disaster Recovery – A Volume in the Disaster and Emergency Management: Case Studies in Adaptation and Innovation Series. Volume Editor: Jane Kushma, Ph.D. December 2022. Paperback ISBN: 9780128095744 eBook ISBN: 9780128095362.

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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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The 2019 Global Assessment Report (GAR)

Emergency Planning

These may be published separately in an academic journal. It could be argued that political decision making is the greatest barrier of all to successful disaster risk reduction. Unofficial voices have suggested that the 'cure to damage ratio' for natural hazards is 1:43. The GAR notes that "we all live in communities".

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Book Review: Justice, Equity, and Emergency Management

Recovery Diva

Emerald Publishing Ltd. 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 Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management.

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Top 10 Resources to Help You Become a BCM Ninja 

MHA Consulting

Then as now, the government published resources to help organizations protect themselves. All you have to do is take the initiative and go get it. Top 10 BCM Resources All that being said, here are my top 10 resources to help you become a ninja-level BCM practitioner: 1. Prepare My Business for an Emergency.

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Risk Assessments and Internal Controls

Reciprocity

From innocent but costly mistakes to deliberate fraud, all organizations are subject to risks that can jeopardize financial reporting or lead to the loss of corporate assets. An internal control system is a company’s set of all internal controls plus the tools the company uses to monitor those controls. Monitoring activities.

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ISO 27001 Certification Requirements & Standards

Reciprocity

The ISO 27001 family, published by the International Organization for Standardization, includes a set of standards for information security. Rather than implementing controls as a checkbox activity, risk-driven organizations proactively choose controls that best mitigate their risks. What is ISO 27001? Select and Apply Controls.

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