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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 answer is: Create a single multi-state/regional multi-modal transit planning, management, and operations authority association.") And the last third is about worst practice and system and leadership failure. (And because in DC area transit there are competing interests and agencies and they don't work together very well. "

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How Shall We Communicate Risk in an Era of ‘Manufactured Reality’?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Corruption, bad leadership, vested interests, marginalisation, poverty, the rise of the ‘precariat’, grievance and polarisation are some of the factors that underlie it. Disaster Prevention and Management 6(2): 94-106. Collective anomie amounts to a form of nihilism. Further reading Chomsky, N. Durkheim, E. Quarantelli, E.L.

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A Proposed Strategy to Advocate for Improved Civil Protection in the United Kingdom

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

This short essay puts the case for coming together to put pressure on the new leadership to improve British civil protection. Looking back at the inquiries and reports on large adverse events in the past, it could fairly be argued that no disaster has been managed well in the UK in the last quarter of a century. The regional tier.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 1)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The leadership of the FHLBs, along with various beneficiaries of their subsidies, has also begun to aggressively lobby and advocate against virtually any proposed change that it views as detrimental to its bottom line. Naturally, F&F’s management teams looked to grow profits further. 24 Excessive executive compensation.

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Interpreting Covid-19 as a Disaster

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The failure of emergency planning is perhaps the greatest error made in the management of the Covid-19 disaster. If neither answer can be confidently made, then the emergency managers simply have to do without a response. Covid-19 has taught the world an enormously important lesson about how to manage a crisis.

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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Like F&F, FHLB leadership teams are motivated to maximize profits. It did so, for example, in 2004 to cover the budget year 2003, when its estimate was $3.2 19] See CBO letter to Senator Richard Shelby dated April 8, 2004. 19 That was a very significant amount 20 years ago. billion for fiscal 2024.

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