Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

AUGUST 20, 2021

This was in 2010, shortly after Haiti had been prostrated by a magnitude 7 earthquake. The 2010 earthquake occurred after yet another period of instability, which the United Nations Peacekeeping mission (MINUSTAH) had striven to bring to an end. Four such events have occurred since the country attained independence from France in 1804.

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The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

To commemorate this anniversary, I have compiled a ten-point Q&A to explain some of the history and key events of the two conservatorships, which reasonably lead to the conclusion that they won’t likely end anytime soon. A very short synopsis is: From 2008 to 2012, the net worth of the two GSEs was wiped out by GFC-era losses.

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Public Policy Blog

JANUARY 3, 2014

Prolific proponent of the networked society Manuel Castells (2011) describes mass media being displaced by mass self-communication (Deluca, Lawson, & Sun, 2012) in altering the communication model from one-to-one to many-to-many. Even better, it permits bypassing the traditional media with their message in real time as an event occurs.

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