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Covid-19: Elements of a Scenario

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

About the same time, 2007, Dr Michael Leavitt of the US Department of Health and Human Services wrote: "We don't know when a pandemic will arrive. Based on SARS 2003 and early infection rates, a projection for the effect of Covid-19 on the airlines shows a dip for six to nine months (Pearce 2020). McCaw 2007. Mathews et al.

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A follow up on the H Street article: Learning from Philadelphia | More sophisticated daypart, retail, cultural, and experience planning

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I suggested something like this to the DC Main Street program in 2003, but it was too ambitious for them to understand.) Such programs and relatedly, business plan competitions, should really be run at the scale of a city (something I suggested to DC Main Streets in 2003, but they couldn't wrap their head around it). Why ask why?

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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The scenario for this pandemic (excluding the recovery) was fully formulated over the period 2003-2009. There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. I have taught it every year since then. Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014.

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

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As more of the world becomes connected online, revolutionaries across the globe are being empowered like never before although not all are successful as sustaining the movement the use of information communication technologies (ICT) are critical in developing and executing modern social movements.