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Article by the Diva in South Korean Newspaper

Recovery Diva

.” Claire Rubin, a researcher who works as a disaster prevention consultant in the U.S., emphasized training and education as an iteration of responding to various disasters on Sept. ” “The nature and components of disasters vary widely, requiring training and ongoing education of key personnel,” she urged.

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Book Review: Case Studies in Disaster Recovery

Recovery Diva

This new book is the first released book (volume) of the four-volume series of Disaster and Emergency Management Case Studies in Adaptation and Innovation with three books forthcoming, each representing one of the four phases of disaster management (mitigation/prevention, preparedness, response, recovery).

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Beyond Your Borders: Strengthening Resilience For The Greater Good

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This process goes beyond a one-time analysis and involves evergreen monitoring of emerging risks and changes in the hazard landscape. Additionally, providing resources, training, and capacity-building programs can empower community members to actively participate in disaster response efforts.

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Book Review: Justice, Equity, and Emergency Management

Recovery Diva

Chapter 4 “Lessons from Co-occuring Disasters: COVOID-19 and Eight Hurricanes”by Alessandra Jerolleman, Shirley Laska and Julie Torres is a complimentary review of Louisiana government leaders and emergency managers responses to a set of simultaneous disasters: global pandemic and an “epidemic” of landfalling hurricanes during the 2020 season.

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Inclement weather response demands attention

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Moreover, real-time risk intelligence feeds can provide pinpoint accuracy that can even enable emergency managers to send location-specific messages to individuals in an immediate or anticipated path of a storm or fire in real-time. The power of the possible in emergency alerting and disaster management is awe-inspiring.

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The 1980 Southern Italian Earthquake After Forty Years

Emergency Planning

It is salutary to reflect that many of those scholars who have studied this disaster are too young to have experienced it. The year 1980 was something of a watershed in the field of disaster risk reduction (or disaster management as it was then known). For the local economy, all was not lost, or not quite all.

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Unlocking Climate Change Resilience Through Critical Event Management and Public Warning

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The report “The Human Cost of Disasters 2000-2019” also records major increases in other categories including drought, wildfires , and extreme temperature events. There has also been a rise in geophysical events including earthquakes and tsunamis which have killed more people than any of the other natural hazards under review in this report.