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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Welcome to the 'riskscape' On one day in July 2021 fires devastated large areas of Sardinia, flooding occurred for the second time in two weeks in London and I received a message from research colleagues in Germany that read "the institute was quite destroyed and many colleagues have suffered tremendous damage to their houses."

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Rampant management failure #2: DC area Metrorail (Washington Area Metropolitan Transit Authority)

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

The article discusses how the Regional Transit Service in Rochester New York developed "partnership" funding agreements with schools, colleges, and businesses to provide financial support beyond farebox revenue, to support mutual agreed upon objectives. The director then, Mark R. But it is also a management failure of local government.

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Fiscal Impacts from COVID-19–Revenue Structure Matters

Death and Taxes

With procyclical fiscal policy, local governments usually face abrupt revenue shortfalls and high demand for public service during economic recession. Furthermore, there is tremendous uncertainty regarding the duration of the pandemic, the magnitude and requirement of federal government aid, and the public’s behavioral change.

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The importance of chronicling presidential transitions

Partnership for Public Service

Seeking to preserve and strengthen this venerated tradition, the Partnership for Public Service has worked since 2008 to support transition teams and federal agencies in their work to execute the immense undertaking of sharing knowledge and preparing thousands of new federal leaders to help a new president succeed.

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Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

of monetary relief went to the Haitian Government, and yet that is exactly where responsibility for public services and safety lay. The 14 th August 2021 magnitude 7.2 For example, in the 2008 hurricane season, four named storms arrived. million), but in mid-August 2021 only 0.1%

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