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Book Review: Disaster and Emergency Management Methods

Recovery Diva

Key words: environmental governance, sustainability, resilience, climate risk, natural hazard, disaster risk reduction, building regulation. Overall, I commend the editor and authors of the text for providing a value-added resource for a variety of stakeholders including students and practitioners. for paperback., for hardback, $42.36

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Book Review: Case Studies in Disaster Recovery

Recovery Diva

This way the reader is given a roadmap to pick and choose from, if they wish so, the case studies written by various authors whose chapters span a wide variety of hazards as well as geographical and sociological settings all of which delve into a chosen aspect of disaster recovery towards building resiliency.

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New Book Review

Recovery Diva

This textbook provides a multitude of case studies each written by academics who are actively teaching and/or have developed curriculum in the fields of crisis, disaster, and/or emergency management with a specific focus on vulnerable populations that are the weakest links in the hazard-risk chain. The case studies cover both the U.S.

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The Legacy of the Diva

Recovery Diva

From the Natural Hazards Center at the University of CO, this article about the legacy of Claire Rubin: Student Volunteers Carry Claire Rubin’s Legacy Forward. This is the first time the posting has been about the author!

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The 10 R's of Crisis Management

Disaster Zone Podcast

The guest for this podcast is Edward Segal a Leadership Strategy Senior Contributor for Forbes, author of the award-winning and bestselling book “Crisis Ahead: 101 Ways To Prepare for and Bounce Back from Disasters, Scandals, and Other Emergencies. ” and host of the “Crisis Ahead” podcast on the Federal News Network.

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Book Review: The Invention of Disaster

Recovery Diva

Book Review: The Invention of Disaster: Power of Knowledge in Discourses of Hazard and Vulnerability. Author : JC Gaillard, Professor of Geography, University of Auckland, New Zealand. The book is part of Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change. Series Editor: Ilan Kelman. For more information: [link].

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Backflow Preventer Types

National Fire Protection Association

In some localities, cross connections may be prohibited or closely regulated by health authorities. Its important to note here that the requirement for backflow prevention in a fire protection system comes from the local water authority and not from any NFPA standard. The most common example of this would be a faucet and a sink.