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Innovations in Data: Put Digital Twins to Work

GovLoop

In that vein, a public/private partnership in Orlando has developed a digital twin of the region that can be used to test new transit routes, plan for the effects of climate change or improve disaster response and recovery plans. This article appears in our guide “ How to Change Things Up (and Make It Stick).”

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Managing Your Data for AI

GovLoop

And geospatial analytics, Barlow said, will improve disaster response planning, weather forecasting and municipal development, among other possibilities. This article appeared in our guide, “ Gearing Up for AI.” Barlow noted the company’s impressive customer experience ranking: an industry-leading 82.4 Net Promoter Score. “If

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Defining Open Data

GovLoop

EJI and similar resources can help agencies with disaster response and guide them during normal operations when they’re designing future projects, evaluating risks or speaking with a community. This article appears in our guide, “ Decision Intelligence: New Possibilities for Data-Based Decision-Making.”

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Google Cloud launches new sustainability offerings to help public sector agencies improve climate resilience

Google Public Sector

With these data-driven insights, public sector agencies and researchers can improve their response time to climate disasters, make more accurate predictions, and implement disaster-response plans with greater confidence. Read Article. Click here to learn more about Google Cloud sustainability.

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The Primacy of Social Capital for Community Resilience

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Aldrich and Meyer argued for greater attention to the role of social capital in a seminal 2015 article by in the American Behavioral Scientist. Many scholars of community resilience have highlighted the key role of social capital for community resilience.

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Towards a Taxonomy of Disasters

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

Another reason is that disaster response has undergone a long-drawn-out process of civilianisation. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction , Article 101163 Marulanda, M.C., Revealing the socioeconomic impact of small disasters in Colombia using the DesInventar database. Disasters 34(2): 552-570.

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Capital shallowing: the effect of disinvestment on government functioning

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

It's used in a Financial Times article about the National Health Service in Britain, how with decreased funding and investment, the amount of capital to support each worker, and each facility, declines in systematic ways that often reduce the ability to provide proper care (" NHS capital investment cuts leave England’s hospitals crumbling ").