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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

For example, business continuity management has a slightly different set of priorities which induces it to change the emphasis among triggering factors (Elliott et al. 2010) showed that in Colombia the combined effect of 20,000 small destructive events was much greater than the socio-economic impact of five large disasters. Masri, R.L.

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Top 50 City Government Blogs

Masters in Public Administration

Rybak was elected Mayor of Minneapolis in 2001 and was re-elected again in 2005 to serve another term. He was also reelected in 2005 and again in 2009. Top City Government Manager Blogs. City managers are often charged with the day to day tasks of running a city and can be read more about in the below blogs. Mayor Slay.

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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)

4 For those who have closely followed the housing finance industry for a long time, this should evoke memories of the efforts to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (F&F) in the years before the Great Financial Crisis (GFC), and how their management teams also responded so aggressively to counter them. 24 Excessive executive compensation.

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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

However, by the Haiti earthquake of 2010, a different picture had become to emerge and establish itself (Alexander 2010). Since the late 20th century, the concept of anomie has been reinterpreted (Allan 2005, pp. News reporting of the January 12, 2010, Haiti earthquake: the role of common misconceptions. Alexander, D.E.

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The Road Not Taken | a response to a letter to the editor in the Washington Post about DC, traffic deaths and traffic safety

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And that there should be ward-specific subcommittees of the pedestrian and bicycle advisory committees to put greater focus on ward specific improvements (this was something I wrote into the Pedestrian and Bicycle Plan I did for Baltimore County in 2010). Safe routes to school programs. It has since been significantly improved.

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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

Further, as protest movements grow more diverse, so must our theoretical framework and investigations of the nature of protest movements in online spaces (Earl, 2010; Earl, J. The platforms of social media are built around weak ties” (Gladwell 2010, p. Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube Platforms in Brief. 2011; Aday, et al.,