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Highlands Conservation Act Grant Program ? Competitive Funding

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If the Governor assigns multiple Lead Agencies, those Agencies must coordinate on funding requests prior to submission and ensure no more than the maximum allowable amount is requested through this funding opportunity. 1964, 2004; 16 U.S.C. Each Agency may submit multiple applications to this Competitive grant round.

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National Park Service as operator of local parks in DC

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

WRT local governments not being good at providing extranormal service see " The Life and Death of a Masterpiece: What went wrong with a 1988 park by the late Dan Kiley, and what can we learn from its imminent demolition? ," Landscape Architecture , 2004. Note sometimes it is poor planning, lack of coordination, etc.

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A brief critique of UK emergency arrangements in the light of the Covid-19 crisis

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

In the case of coronavirus, the medical profession has taken control of the agenda, yet most of the failings--and there are many--refer to civil protection issues: communications, logistics, coordination. The 2004 Civil Contingencies Act has been sidelined throughout the Coronavirus disaster. Moreover, it is inclusive.

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Recreation planning and financing failure in Philadelphia: 11 of 12 public swimming pools have closed

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The Philadelphia Inquirer has an article on the latter, " Philly’s indoor pools have become ‘a travesty’ after decades of disrepair and neglect ," about how 11 of 12 public indoor pools are closed because of facility failure--from 2004 to 2019. One issue is money.

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University of Utah University Neighborhood Partners program and community revitalization in West side Salt Lake City/County

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From the Salt Lake Tribune article: It was in 2001 that University of Utah President Bernie Machen (1998-2004) recognized and took ownership for the fact that, as an institution, the U was little involved on the west side.

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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

Get the parks working together and coordinated. I think there are two different approaches that could break the logjam, one would be the designation of this area as a National Heritage Area , where NPS helps to coordinate a variety of federal, state, local and private assets in an integrated fashion.

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Interpreting Covid-19 as a Disaster

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Internationally, the greatest lesson of the previous SARS pandemic (2002-2004) was that international cooperation was the key to reducing its impact. Instead, Covid-19 has had negative impacts on some aspects of international exchange. Existential threats. Climate change is at the root of some of them.

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