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October 2016 | Studying Networks Over Time, By H. Brinton Milward

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

2010), the typical network paper sent to JPART is a study of one or a small number of public and nonprofit networks over a short span of time–typically the length of time it took the researcher to conduct the network survey.

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34 new or updated datasets on the Registry of Open Data: New data for land use, Alzheimer’s Disease, and more

AWS Public Sector Blog

Climate and weather: A Global Drought and Flood Catalogue from 1950 to 2016 from National University of Singapore. Updated: NASA Earth Exchange Global Daily Downscaled Projections managed by NASA—now includes cloud-optimized GeoTIFF format. European Space Agency WorldCover 2021 & 2020 maps managed by Vito.

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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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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Tierney (2008) provided a functional semantic classification of the size of extreme events (revised by Alexander 2016, p. ) 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. Journal of Emergency Management 11(1): 59-72.

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Archangel: The future of telecare service providers is now

Open Access Government - Technology News

Some suppliers are still asking for time because they need to upgrade their systems, despite having known about the need for change since 2016, and the Cloud being around since 2010. The sooner we begin the investment/implementation of these strategies, the better it will be for all” says Tom.

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WMATA and MWCOG announce new joint transit initiative | Could a regional "transport association" be on the horizon, or just a transit bailout?

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

I made a presentation about this at the University of Delaware public policy school in early 2010, " Metropolitan Mass Transit Planning presentation " (link to presentation within). The concept of a multi-regional and multi-state transit network is outlined in " The meta-regional transit network " (2009). German VV as the model for DC.

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February 2017 | Some Principles of Strategic Thinking, By John M. Bryson

PMRA (Public Management Research Association)

Indeed, if public leaders and managers find that a planning approach gets in the way of strategic thinking, acting, and learning, they should drop the approach and try a different one. I was thus intrigued by a review of Whiplash: How to Survive our Faster Future (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2016) by Joi Ito and Jeff Howe.

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