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Calibrating Theory with Practice - IEM7e Reviewed by ASIS
George Haddow, Jane Bullock, and I have always considered our efforts on Introduction to Emergency Management to be a genuine 'labor of...
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Values-Based Emergency and Risk Management
Emergency and risk management are most effective when they are values-based. We place extraordinarily-high value on life and health when...
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An Unlikely Defense of the Mask Mandate
Why do we need a mask mandate? Perhaps not for the reasons one might expect. It's no secret that resistance to masks remains at an...
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COVID Risk Communication: Enabling Risk Comparisons
This article published today (Critics said the flu kills more than coronavirus. Why that's not a fair comparison -- and now, it's not...
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Why Community Resilience Matters
On January 13th, the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency issued an errant statewide alert warning of an inbound ballistic missile and...
