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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Quarantelli and Dynes (1970) developed a three-stage model whereby property norms are progressively abandoned as a neighbourhood descends into an outbreak of uncontrolled looting. The former has been in widespread use since about 1993, and the latter since around 2009. Bilham 2011. Early views of social media (e.g. Bird et al.

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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. Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014. The last two of these were either not developed enough or were allowed to lapse.

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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.

Public Policy Blog

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. 2011; Aday, et al.,

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Current GSE Guarantee Fees Are Too Low to Be Consistent with Regulatory Capital: Does This Mean a Large Increase Is Coming?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The GSEs and the FHFA together raised it to more than double 23 its pre-conservatorship value and a more defined economic rationale was developed over time to determine its “right” level. 40 Nevertheless, it has been most of a decade since the CCF was first developed. public comment periods) were bypassed. See [link].

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