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Disasters: Knowledge and Information in the New Age of Anomie

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

The change is achieved through apomediation (bypassing information gatekeepers), and control now rests in the information itself, and how it is served up to its consumers (Alexander 2014). The result is a communication process which has been termed chronic contagion (Pomerantsev 2019). However, two analyses (Escaleras et al.

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State of the Nation - a UK Perspective on Covid-19

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

There were major exercises on pandemics in 2005, 2007 and 2016. Plans were made in the UK in 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2014. The UK Government's 13 policy U-turns do not reflect adaptation to dynamic circumstances, but inability to conceive what to do, how to implement it and how to communicate.

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Public restrooms: single versus multiple-occupant

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The NYC Parks facilities are an absolute illustration of my point that the quality of public facilities (civic assets) communicates whether or not we value the public and the civic commons. Policy and practice in public space management depending on the revitalization health of a community. NYC shows that they do.

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