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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Welcome to the 'riskscape' On one day in July 2021 fires devastated large areas of Sardinia, flooding occurred for the second time in two weeks in London and I received a message from research colleagues in Germany that read "the institute was quite destroyed and many colleagues have suffered tremendous damage to their houses."

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How AWS supports the 10th anniversary of National Voter Registration Day with digital tools for civic engagement

AWS Public Sector Blog

In 2021, Democracy Works continued to make an impact and sent 23.3 Since 2019, Voterly has partnered with HeadCount , a non-partisan organization that uses the power of music to register voters and promote participation in democracy. Since 2004 HeadCount has supported the registration of over one million voters.

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AWS investment in South Africa results in economic ripple effect

AWS Public Sector Blog

This origin story traces back to the founding of the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud ( Amazon EC2 ) service in 2004, which is now regarded as one of the fundamental pieces of cloud computing technology. Amazon is on a path to power its operations with 100% renewable energy by 2025 – five years ahead of its original target.

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Revisiting the 11th Street Bridge Park project as an opportunity rather than a folly: a new revitalization agenda for East of the River, DC

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The paper " Evaluating the economics of park-tourism from the ground-up: Leakage, multiplier effects, and the enabling environment at South Luangwa National Park, Zambia " Ecological Economics , 2021, argues that simple surveys can collect this type of information. Part 1: Overview and Theoretical Foundations ," 2021 -- " St.