Emergency Planning

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Graff described malpractice among academic journal editors and called for a bill of rights to protect authors against such excesses. During that time I have encountered all sorts of behaviour, good and bad, by authors, reviewers and editors. Herein I am going to concentrate on malpractice by authors. Irrelevant submission.

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Emergency Planning

DECEMBER 20, 2024

One of these is emergency planning, the process of anticipating needs caused by disaster impacts and making arrangements to satisfy them as well as possible with available resources. One of the keys to this is the issue of trust in authority--or its absence. Scepticism induces me to prefer the latter.

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Emergency Planning

MARCH 27, 2020

So is the response by academic authors. In 2015 Gaillard and Gomez published an interesting paper on the "disaster research gold rush". They also wish to capture experience and preserve it as evidence on which to base future policies and plans. Authors can write in haste and repent at their leisure: editors can rue the day.

Pandemic 130

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Emergency Planning

AUGUST 22, 2019

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. Academic publishing continues to mutate at a bewildering rate.

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Emergency Planning

APRIL 9, 2020

This reminded me that perhaps 70 per cent of academic publishing is for personnel reasons (to get a job, keep a job, obtain a salary raise, or achieve promotion). I cleave to the old-fashioned view that publishing should take place to further the sharing of good ideas. We confront a new phenomenon: intra-disaster research publication.

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Plan B Consulting

JANUARY 18, 2021

Over the last four weeks, I have been publishing a running commentary on their response here. Attacks on English local authorities, such as Hackney, I believe have not been paid, but the consequence of this is that three months later they still do not have all their systems back online. They have also said that they lost 1.2

Communications 52

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Plan B Consulting

JANUARY 18, 2021

Over the last four weeks, I have been publishing a running commentary on their response here. Attacks on English local authorities, such as Hackney, I believe have not been paid, but the consequence of this is that three months later they still do not have all their systems back online. They have also said that they lost 1.2

Communications 52

Communications Media Government Publishing 52