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Book Review: Justice, Equity, and Emergency Management

Recovery Diva

Chapter 2, “Mutual Aid: Grassroots Model for Justice and Equity in Emergency Management” by Miriam Belblidia and Chenier Kliebert, describes successful lessons of a Mutual Aid Response Network (MARN) involving over 5,000 participants in a grassroots response to COVOID-19 pandemic and a record-breaking Gulf Coast hurricane season 2020.

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Using Big Data To Be Crisis Aware And Leaning Forward?

Business Continuity Today

Using Big Data patterns to predict potential crises that can impact your organization, such as severe weather, pandemics, power outages not only is a beneficial practice within businesses, it can also improve the efficiency and effectiveness of emergency and disaster management organizations.

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Using Big Data To Be Crisis Aware And Leaning Forward?

Business Continuity Today

Using Big Data patterns to predict potential crises that can impact your organization, such as severe weather, pandemics, power outages not only is a beneficial practice within businesses, it can also improve the efficiency and effectiveness of emergency and disaster management organizations.

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Common Misconceptions about Disaster

Emergency Planning

As increases in lawlessness are seldom a serious problem as a result of disaster, the police are usually able to deal with public order problems without the need to call for military assistance. Myth 16: The mass media create an accurate picture of the disasters on which they report. Myth 63: Tsunamis never catch fire.