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Disaster response and risk management using PNNL’s Aether framework on AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

The framework has evolved over the last five years, and instances of Aether are deployed in various resilience and disaster response studies across the globe. Some other projects powered by Aether include Rapid Analytics for Disaster Response (RADR) and Chemical Security Mapping Tool (CSMT).

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A brief critique of UK emergency arrangements in the light of the Covid-19 crisis

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Meanwhile, in Britain, there were shortcomings in the response to the 1999 Ladbroke Grove train crash, particularly in the treatment of the survivors. In 2017, the responses to the Manchester Arena bombings and the Grenfell Tower fire were substantially criticised. Let us replace doctrine by 'plans' and 'procedures'.

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The Primacy of Social Capital for Community Resilience

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Resilience will come not from physical engineering—instead, it will come from bottom up responses built on local social networks. 363) Social capital matters. It matters for individual and community quality of life. It matters for economic development. And it matters a whole lot for community resilience.

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Building resilience: Using technology to prepare for, respond to, and recover from the unexpected

AWS Public Sector Blog

AWS also backs researchers through the Network of Earth Observation Laboratories for Disaster Risk Reduction (RedLABOT). RedLABOT was developed in collaboration with NASA Disaster Response Latin America, Esri , and AmeriGeo to address the gaps and challenges in disaster risk reduction in Latin America and the Caribbean.

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Capital shallowing: the effect of disinvestment on government functioning

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

But the failures with FEMA and disaster response after Hurricane Katrina and under Trump with Puerto Rico and Houston are a good example. But I don't know if the failure of the Army Corps of Engineers and levees was about capital shallowing or just politics, failure to adequately address risk, budget shortfalls, etc.