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Cities, Cultural Heritage and the Culture of Responding to Floods

Emergency Planning

In 2021 a colleague who studies natural hazards wrote to me that "our institute is all but destroyed and colleagues have lost their homes". Each new disaster reveals the shortcomings of hazard mitigation and disaster preparedness. Powerful floods struck Puerto Lumbreras again in 2012. Europe is not well protected against flooding.

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Hazardous Conditions: Mitigation Planning and Pandemics

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

state develops a hazard mitigation plan, which identifies top local risks and provides a framework for long term strategies to reduce risk and protect citizens and property from damage. 8 states/territories mention pandemic planning but do not discuss further how the state or agency will be able to mitigate the hazard from the event.

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Crises On The Rise: 5 Focus Areas For Greater Resilience

everbridge

The global landscape has experienced an undeniable surge in hazards over the past decade. Natural disasters, pandemics, cybersecurity events, and other crises have wrought devastation on communities worldwide, leading many to question whether the hazard environment is changing for the worse.

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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.

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The hidden costs of shadow IT: How unsanctioned tech impacts your budget

Online Computers

In 2013, thieves stole two laptops from Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey (Horizon BCBSNJ), the state’s largest healthcare provider. Using unauthorized laptops illustrates the hazards of shadow IT within a company. Compliance issues Industries such as healthcare or finance have strict regulations regarding data handling.

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Racial Disparities and COVID-19

National Center for Disaster Prepardness

As the world scrambles each week to grapple with the seemingly insurmountable number of positive cases and deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic, public policy is failing some of America’s most vulnerable communities. The Commonwealth Fund: Healthcare Policies during COVID-19. of the positive cases with race specified, but just 13.4%

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Risk Assessment vs Risk Analysis

Reciprocity

Various types of hazards must be considered. After identifying hazards and risks, consider how they are harmful and the possible outcomes. This means that risks presenting a higher threat must receive more comprehensive control measures than lower-risk hazards. Economic risk. Operational risk. Third-party risk. Quality risk.